56 YRS OLD AND FRUSTRATED.... BY HOW SLOW EVERYONE AROUND ME MOVES!!!!

[Joe the raw christian]

Hi RFR,

While I haven't totally mastered patience I have grown alot in the last 10 yrs or so. Since going vegan 2 yrs ago I noticed that the people around me always seem to tell me to slow down, you walk too fast, etc, etc. I can't speak for anyone else but I do know it's starting to piss me off. Don't misunderstand I know life is not to be rushed thru but a journey to be enjoyed. With ALL the energy from my new lifestyle, you'd think maybe they'd want to change but NO...... I'm supposed to slow down to their pace.

I believe Jesus came to give us LIFE!!!! I want to 'live full & die empty'!!! Can anyone else relate to this or am I just ranting!!!!!

Blessings................

[Robin Lamarche]

I happy for you that you have been blessed with so much energy and love for life. It sounds like you maybe need to find some "like Minded" or "Life energy " people to share your joy and energy with.  Sometimes as we grow and change .. our supporting frinds need to chamge also. Usually I have found them right in front of me on my path, and journey.   

I feel that is also very importat for us not to lose site of our love and compassion for those who do not have the same energy or thought paths. There can be many reasons for this that we may never understand, but allow them the same curtisy that you would like to recieve from them. 

[Bette Bliss Shaw]

Joe, the key is let the people be. Recognize that your life is different and they are not going to keep up with your pace perhaps but rather you might be a leader, there to set the pace while being patient and kind and loving to those who are not going so fast.

Sometimes, we can slow down, hold their hand and help them along. SOmetimes we just gotta speed. Its all good. <3

[Joe the raw christian]

Thanks all.... I ain't going crazy after all!!!!

Blessings..............

[Vanessa Machelle Helm]

Joe, If you call yourself a raw christian, why are you talking negative. It's up to God to decide when he wants you to go home to live with him.  Be positive. Don't worry about dying, because you have a lot of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and even years to live! Enjoy life and have fun! I love you, brother!

[djd]

We are indeed meant to be full of life and Life.

[Bette Bliss Shaw]

OH MY YES! People tell me that too! I came to live life alive too Joe and I have been shown the way. Let your light shine!

As for me, I have decided that I will not be made small, nor self shrink, anymore. I have a message to deliver and the means to do so. Look out, here I come. Letting it shine!

[LaTricia E. Morris]

Lol. I've been referred to as "hyper-effecient" a number of times, even before I went rAW. Where I live, people stay in constant mosey-mode. Slower people don't usually care as much for faster/more-efficient peers cause they usually like their slow pace, are afraid they're going to be made to look bad, and/or that they'll have to speed up to catch up. Eh, it is was it is. As much as you would think anybody would be open to learning about how they can better themselves; such is often not the case. At least that's how it is here. People often like to opt for the route of wallowing in ignorance so as to hsee no need to change. Then, when things go wrong, its usually someone else's fault or act like its just their "cross to bear." Now, that ticks me off. But, their choice. Just hate for anybody to act like the results of their poor dietary choices are something that just happened to them. You're right. God wants us to have life more abundantly and I'm willing to settle for nothing shy of exactly what kind of abundantly He had in mind. :-)