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When we first arrived in Taipei, our roommate was Italian, and we felt very comfortable at first sight.

That night, my roommate and I prepared breakfast for tomorrow morning. When we shared a ham sandwich with my Italian roommate, she said that she didn't eat meat, and she was too embarrassed to ask if we could eat ham. Only then did I know that she was a vegetarian.

Then I recalled that she bought mackerel lunch, so I began to wonder, is it because of religious reasons that she doesn't eat meat?

Once, I asked her curiously, why not eat meat?

She told me that she thought the animals were too cute to eat, and there were too many people who ate meat. She wants to keep her balance.

After listening to her answer, my roommate and I were shocked. She is really a vegetarian. Her dinner is very simple, spaghetti with some beans, washed with boiling water and eaten without any seasoning.

Then I came into contact with an English friend of my Italian roommate. She told me that many people in Britain are vegetarians.

At that time, I just came into contact with "vegetarians", but I knew I admired them in my heart.

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Afterwards, my aunt took me to the 50th anniversary of Tzu Chi, a Buddhist charity in Taiwan Province Province, China. Yes, many of the teachers and sisters in it are vegetarians, and their faces look very delicate, perhaps because they are elites from all walks of life, so they all look very temperamental. At first, I thought they all ate vegetarian food because they believed in Buddhism, but later I found that I only knew the surface, and they were more for environmental protection.

A professor at Taiwan Province Normal University once told us:

If you want gardenia to last for a long time, you must let this flower feel the crisis of life.

People on the island of Taiwan Province Province feel the crisis from natural and man-made disasters, so they are more environmentally friendly, selfless and caring.

There are many vegetarian restaurants in Taipei, and there are two vegetarian lunch shops next to Normal University. Many students will choose to buy vegetarian lunch boxes.

At that time, I wanted to start trying to be a vegetarian.

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I really started to be a vegetarian after I saw a video on the Internet.

The video is about a family owner who wants to release a fish after saving it. The owner tried to release the fish many times, but the fish refused to leave and swam back again and again. I have read many stories about animals repaying their kindness, but when I saw that the protagonist was a fish, I felt very sad because I like fish best.

So I don't eat meat, but I eat milk and eggs. I still drink milk and eat eggs now.

Because I know very well that my heart is full of endless desires all the time, whether it is material or spiritual, I want a lot.

Vegetarianism is also a hope to reduce the consistency of one's inner desires.

Indeed, during that time in Taipei, everything gradually became simpler from the beginning of diet.

I obviously feel that my material desires are not so strong.

Become more patient and have a better temper.

Become more tolerant, and become less stubborn about many people and things that I once thought I would never let go.

I think I found my place.

I like myself very much, which makes me feel very relaxed.

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After returning to the mainland, I found that people around me have changed a lot in this short period of six months.

Grandma has lost a lot of weight and become old. Grandpa, who has never been fat, has aged a lot in half a year.

Mom's waist is much wider and her hair at the temples is much whiter. She said that her waist has started to hurt again recently.

After menstruation's spine compresses the nerves, his hands are always numb and he can't sleep well at night.

Qi Wei has a lot on his mind, and I can feel that he is always unhappy.

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The person I love/who loves me is suffering from old age, illness and heartache. I don't know what to do, and I know I can't stop it from happening.

Then, I remembered that my aunt in Taipei once told me that an aunt made a vow to be a vegetarian before the Buddha in order to pray for her father-in-law to recover.

We are always praying, always praying for blessings, but never giving them.

Therefore, I made a wish in front of the Bodhisattva, hoping that I can exchange vegetarianism for those I love and those who love me with less physical and psychological torture and more happiness, peace and joy.

In fact, I was greedy in the end.