Day 141e: Where every murder belongs … (September 17, 2019)
I walked onward that morning, enjoying y time alongside the river immensely, until I the path came to an end and I exited to see a local McDonald’s nearby. I was thirsty at the time, so entered the establishment to follow my rote script and exclaim why I was walking and ask for a drink of water. Most of the time this announcement merely garnered a handful of confused looks, and more often than not I was indeed offered a soothing libation (more often than not a cup of water from the tap), and yet on this particular morning a McDonald’s breakfast patron heard my tale and bought me a sausage biscuit – speaking so rapidly & excitedly while doing so that I didn’t have an opportunity to note that I would not be eating the same. And then the deed was done and the smile on his face was so gleaming that I couldn’t bring myself to snuff out the same. Indeed, there would have been no way to softly or gently explain veganism and my limitless Love for all my sentient cousins that wouldn’t somehow bring my newfound Friend consternation and suffering. And so I simply received my biscuit, thanked him wholeheartedly, waited for him to zoom off to work, and respectfully deposited my would-be breakfast into a nearby garbage can – the only place murder belongs …
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, we can’t practice any other virtue with any meaningful power or conviction … We cannot change what will happen to us over the course of our lives. And yet we ever can choose & alter how we act in the face of the same … Circumstances do not create us. We respond to (and thereby alter, and thereby give meaning to) our circumstances … And so let us all ever do what is Right, not what is easy or what is popular or what is comfortable or what is beneficial … Others are certainly entitled to think what they will of us, and they’re even entitled to a full respect for those opinions, and yet before we can live with others rightly we’ve got to live in such a way that allows us to live with ourselves … And so we must act with impeccable integrity in even the slightest matters, for whoever is careless with the truth in small things cannot be trusted with more important ones.” ~ inspired by Maya Angelou, Robert Fanney, Benjamin Disraeli, Roy T. Bennett, Harper Lee & Albert Einstein
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