Being a vegetarian

Once I was an omnivorous. I never knew why we take meat? Why we enjoy having meat? I never knew the pain of others.

When I was a kid, I always go for meat. If I don’t have meat with my meals, I used to sleep empty stomach.

As Dalai Lama had said;" Animals are my friends. I do not eat my friends". We are related to each other, in fact we are interconnected with the natures and the surroundings around.

Slowly, I realized the importance of life. One day I felt something different within me. I could not sleep whole night. Around three clock, I woke up and watched out through the window and I could see a moon in a blue sky. As I was watching, I could see the moon moving behind the mountain. Then I realized that our life is impermanent. I felt a pain deep in my heart. I was afraid to sleep back.

Some unfortunate creature had to be slaughtered, which reminds of horrific practices at abattoirs. People kill animals in order to enjoy themselves and to be happy but people never realize the pain that other animals have to bear. People always think for self. We can even be happy, healthy and can lead a prosperous life being as a vegetarianism.

I am happy because I am a vegetarian, if we do not include meat on the menu, butchers would be out of business.

Lets lead our life in a peace making others peace...Lets stop giving pain to others. Lets know the value of life. One day or other we are going to be an ASH.

We know the fact of life. We want to live in a peace. we plan many things but we fail to do it. No one want to be obliterates in fact everyone want to be serene. We have the power to altruism and many of us practice but sometimes the worse situation approaches. No one want to be vicious.

We are born to make our world beautiful place to live not to destroy the beauty of the world. Lets join our hands together and connect our hearts to make our world beautiful and peace place to live in.

Dilu Rai

Sherubtse College

Media Studies