It was really always a question of “what meat will I be having with this meal?” rather than “will I be having meat with this meal?”. This small shift in perspective, in awareness, really cemented the progress I had made.

Looking at a screen all day as a way of learning the world is like circling your wrists all day for exercise. You've barely moved, but your wrists are aching.

You thought you were just going out for groceries so you could stop eating out so much - you are really trying to be part of the solution. Strangely enough, here you are with a pile of soy sauce packets and a near-tanked bank balance, unable to shake the vague sense of guilt that you might actually just be part of the problem.

The little pollinating bugs scorned the water tanks. Only tepid slime gets us sexy. No goo for me, no cacao for you. The scientists shrugged. Give them back their goo, they told the export barons. You made a very expensive mistake. You overdid it.