u/Hoodibird

I was lounging on my towel at the beach minding my own business talking to the person next to me who I'm there with, when my thought was suddenly cut off by the sight of toddler dick swinging around right in front of me. Why?? Don't they make swim wear for toddlers? What about creepy pedos? It's like receiving unsolicited dick pics but somehow a thousand times worse. I don't want to see this. I didn't ask for this. Help. Where is the bleach? Because I need to rinse my eyes with it. Ew. Keep your toddlers at home if you don't want to bother clothing them. Holy fuck. And it's not just one. It's like every mother somehow got together and agreed that it's common practice to leave kids at a certain age naked in public. Yikes. Thanks I fucking hate this. But I'm sure mothers will find every excuse under the sun why they think this is somehow okay.

It's a feeling that I've constantly struggled with whenever I am not on a vegan diet.

I've occasionally had thoughts of guilt because I knew that I was someone to take offense whenever humans harm each other, yet I often consumed animal products which enabled far worse suffering upon animals.

The longer I consumed animal products, the more of a hypocrite I feel in not honoring my deepest values, to speak of love and compassion towards other people and yet inflicting unimaginable pain upon thousands of defenseless animals who are killed out of view, I just can't be part of it any longer.

Met up with a group recently and one person said their vision on one eye has gone so bad they've had surgery on it and it didn't help. They've got the thickest glass but their vision is still blurry. The conversation shifted to food and I was reminded this person is vegan.

I know vegan diets can cause blindness in cats and dogs but can it cause blurry vision and eye health problems in humans too? Have any of you experienced vision loss on a vegan diet? And did your eye health improve when you ate meat again?

My perpetrators have many friends who they constantly meet and have a great time with. They have a stable part time job, a partner, a rich social life and support system. They have all the things I wish I had, things money can't buy. I feel stuck in my healing progress and am still alone at 35, because I just can't connect to the people around me beyond surface level no matter what I try. I have many aquaintances but zero friends.