Today was a complicated day. I learned that a few core people from the Kanekiki Farm are leaving soon and it looks like some important changes are happening within the raw vegan community. I still don’t know exactly what is going on or what my role will be in all of this. I certainly feel ungrounded and I am wondering what I am supposed to do. Life isn’t always easy in the world of raw vegans.
Why Can’t People Stick to the Raw Vegan Diet?
One of the big disappointments of the day was finding out that one of the girls at the Kanekiki Farm, who has been fully raw for more than 2 years, decided to eat some cooked food last week. It was a little heart breaking to hear this, especially because she was one of the people who I was looking up to as my raw vegan role models. Seeing that eating a raw vegan diet is not that important to her anymore made me feel less supported to follow my own path as a raw vegan and fruitarian.
I spoke with this girl and asked her to explain why she had gone back to eating cooked foods. She said she wanted to let go of the label of being a raw vegan and that she wanted more freedom and flexibility in her life. She mentioned how she had noticed that after eating some cooked foods she was feeling better and how her running had improved since.
It was hard to trust what she was saying, especially because I know she has been going through some rough emotions over the last month. I don’t want to speak for her, but I know that when I have problems in my life I always go back to old habits I try to quit, like drinking, smoking, staying up late, etc. I have the intuition, and I deduct, that it was the challenges she has been going through that lead her to drop the raw vegan diet. She says she is happy with her decision but it is hard for me to believe that. It sounds like she is just coming up with reasons to go back to doing something she didn’t think it was best.
I do not blame her at all. Many times I have done the same, and to be clear, I don’t even know if this is in fact the truth of what is going on. I am just sharing what I see from my perspective.
At the end of the day, it seems that stress and social pressure are the main reasons why people stop following the raw vegan diet. I am yet to see someone go back to eating cooked foods because they fell truly ill or completely out of energy.
Will I Remain a Fruitarian?
Despite all the instability in my life right now, I still want to remain fruitarian for as long as I can. I still think fruits are the best foods for humans and I still think they are the healthiest, most ethical choice. As a matter of fact, yesterday I read some information about something called “The Jesus Diet”, which is basically the same as the fruitarian diet, or very similar. Apparently, the information is coming from Essene texts. I still have to look more into this.
What I am trying to say is that being a fruitarian is still my goal, and even though it may not be my goal forever, I still want to work towards it for as long as I can. If I stop eating fruit or a raw vegan diet, I will be open to look into my flaws and my greatness and find out why I chose to change my path, in the meantime, I am sticking to the fruit.