Seeing today's prompt brought a type of laugh that did not enter my mind to my face because looking at the place where i grew up, we cannot do without eating meat from cow meat, to chicken, to turkey and to goat meat even bush meat once in a while is not left out and that is because meat is not just part of meals for us, I will say that it is also a celebration because I have seen a situation where buy someone says that if he does not see meat that he will not eat such food.
In my country, some people will say that if you cook and there is no meat in your pot then it is either you do not love yourself, no respect and maybe you do have have class. Because let's say I visit someone and they do not put meat on my food, I might be thinking otherwise. Imagine I were banned from eating meat, I would totally feel somehow to me because let's say I were to go for a function with my friends and they served us meat, i might have put like two in my mouth before I remembered the rule that I have been banned from eating meat. And some meals will even be boring to me self especially all those Sundays special meals cooked by my mum and the funny thing also is that this rules might not work for me because I do not eat sea foods, fish, and all.
But I can still adjust a bit, just a bit, to eating some foods that do not require meat, foods like yam, potatoes, some natural foods ,and one of my favorite beans. And the thing is that it is meat that they banned me from eating I can go with some seasoning that has meat flavor in it.
But I will not lie, I am human, I will always have the urge and the temptation to eat meat because there will be some time I will forget about the rule. However, it is just meat and I think I can do with the ban but with some mistakes in-between.
Sometimes, I fast for days which has taught me strength and how to endure, so me not eating meat will also teach me how to exercise more patience and self control with some empathy especially when eating with others. Because if I say it is all about protein, I can get that from other sources and this will even make my soul and body feels more lighter and safe and I might even save some little money for other things.
But I will be honest here because there might be some night that I will be strolling along the way and I might pass through an aboki selling suya, I know that I might fall for that suya but I will surely raise again. Because life is all about deciding what I want and without meat, I might learn self control in other aspects of life.
Thank you for reading.
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