Ignorance equals cruelty
(sorry this is kind of a personal rant, you may not fully understand without knowing all the details, if ur interested just ask i’m more than happy to share)
Yea so I had a kind of shitty day at work today. I will never understand why people are mean just to be mean. Sure we’ve all done or said things when we were young, maybe even picked on or bullied other kids, but once we get older we realize how cruel this is and learn to treat one another with kindness and respect. At least I like to think most people act this way. But I may, once again, be wrong, and have too much faith in the human race. Now I don’t know if it’s me personally, or that I’m Vegan, or even if I’ve done something to offend others but there seems to be a growing number of individuals I work with that feel it is their personal responsibility to constantly put me down, try to hurt me, or call me out on doing something wrong. (example if I were to unknowingly ingest an animal product) I have to tell you, I was holding back tears most of the day today, trying to hide them behind laughter. I can understand if someone doesn’t like me, I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t expect everyone to like me and vice versa, but to go out of your way to belittle me just doesn’t seem necessary. What I need to say to these people is I’m sorry if my beliefs and lifestyle offends you, or makes you uncomfortable, but I do not make my choices for you. Most of my choices aren’t even made for me but for the animals. I don’t go around putting everyone down for eating meat, or tell others not to eat it in my presence. What’s the big deal if someone who is not vegan wants to include me in office festivities by bringing in a vegan treat? Which by the way is something we all can enjoy.
Instead of getting worked up I’m going to try to remember to think about the sources of where all the ignorance and cruelty is coming from. I’ll try to paint a picture for you to explain the ignorant individuals I have to put up with every single day. First there’s ‘the leader’. I personally think she is a bit psychotic. Almost on a daily basis she first ropes me into a pointless argument on topics which we will probably never see eye to eye and she doesn’t even really care to understand where I’m coming from or what I’m saying. Then when I’m not around she talks about me to people who don’t even know me, and, I quote, call me ‘wacko’ because of whatever lies or distorted version she has told them about me. She constantly puts others down to make herself feel superior yet she went to all the ‘best schools’ and has done everything. You know the type, always has to one up every story she hears, and always has something to say. She’s prayed on some of my weaker minded coworkers and ‘recruited’ them to her ‘side’. Her newest follower, I’ve recently discovered, tells others not to be friends with me. Now I’ve have very few conversations with this woman I cant see what she could possibly have against me? Maybe she’s jealous that the person she goes on break with has become a friend of mine and we get together outside of work. But it’s not like I’ve taken a friend away from her, I don’t believe they’ve gone out many places outside of work so I really don’t get it. The third person has never really been very trustworthy anyhow. I’ve heard him speak unkindly about his ‘leader’ in the past so when they whisper about me I know that next week he’ll be talking about another person all the while calling them a ‘friend’. so really when it’s broken down these people are, sorry to say, kind of pathetic and going no where fast. Its really sad that the people ‘against’ me are nearly twice my age yet less mature. So you know what if it makes you feel good to try and ‘catch’ me doing something you think I shouldn’t or just making fun of me behind my back, go right a head. I will not be torn down. I will continue to stand strong and fight the fight for those who cant fight for themselves. You may hurt my feelings but you will never break me or my spirit. If ignorance equals cruelty as does in the case of certain coworkers then I am glad to no longer be blinded by it.
