Is it getting easier for you?

In today's Ultimate Blog Challenge prompt the email starts with that question " is it getting easier for you?" Of course, that question in the email is asking about the blog challenge, is it getting easier to write each day? I'd also like to take that question and apply it to being vegan too.

First, I am actually finding writing blogs to be harder right now. I think it makes sense that there will be some peaks and valleys over the course of this challenge, I mean, that's why it's called a challenge right? It's supposed to push you. Despite currently feeling like I'd like to not think about writing a blog, I don't intend to give up.

I think this is an important question to ask about being vegan, is it getting easier for you? I have two answers for this question. The first response is that yes, the longer I am vegan the easier it is to remain committed. It's not just because the food options are getting better both at the grocery store and when dining out, it's easier because once you stop seeing animal based things as food, it's hard to go back (in my experience, anyway).

Where being vegan is getting harder for me is in witnessing the people who have been around me for a long time still participating in consuming animal based foods and using products which have actively harmed animals without a thought, despite all they have learned through questions they have asked me. Despite witnessing what being vegan can create in one's life. It is also harder the more you dig into all of the ways human exploit animals, just when you think you've learned it all, you uncover something new, something horrific, and it makes the day a little less bright.

I tell you that to be honest, not to deter you from embarking on your own vegan journey. Even knowing there will be hard, sad, or disappointing moments doesn't deter me from continuing living this way. I still assert that this is the most beautiful decision I have ever made.

So, now, I'll ask you. Whether you've made the choice during Veganuary to go vegan or just trying out some new foods or products, is it getting easier for you? How can I help make it easier? Tell me in the comments below.