6 months later and why am I still doing this?

More than ever, this choice to be vegetarian is bothering me. Not because I'm upset that I have made the switch, but rather that I'm ashamed it took me so long to realize why this is important.

I started thinking about how different the past 6 months of my life have been different. Mainly that i'm more cognisant of what i'm putting into my body.. I actually think about things before I eat them.. wait, what? Yeah, that was completely unheard of before. I loved meat. I loved burgers, hotdogs, steak, etc. but if I start to think now about why I loved them so much.. I can't think of a reason why. They tasted good, maybe? But does meat really have much of a taste? Seems to me that you mostly taste the marinade.. which then why not just eat marinade? I think I primarily ate meat because it was cool to eat meat.. I was used to it, I grew up on it, everyone I know ate it, it was cool. Well ...I don't think it's cool anymore.

Someone really close to me asked the other day why I'm "still" vegetarian. My response was simply this: "If I needed to eat meat to survive that would be one thing, but since I don't, why do I have to kill an animal just to satisfy my cravings?" that's awful. I don't need it, so why eat it?

Meat is not worth it, and i'm glad I finally realized that. If only I knew sooner..