#bc i expended a LOT of energy today and now i am exhausted

[honeysuckle-venom]

Today after therapy my dad and I went to the local health food store for some groceries I can only find there. As we were looking and talking near one of the store workers he interrupted and said, "Excuse me, but is one or both of you a vegan or vegetarian?" I said I was a vegetarian, and he said "I could tell because you have so much energy! It's because you don't have dead animals weighing you down!" I was polite and whatever and we moved on but the interaction really irked me on a number of levels.

First of all, that's absurd. Dead animals don't weight people down, eating meat is fine, and honestly possibly if I ate meat it would mean my anemia would be better and I would have more energy. Also, the reason I had "so much energy" was because I was in an incredibly anxious, nearly manic state inspired by my health anxiety/anxiety about my upcoming doctor's appointment. An appointment which will in part be looking for the cause of my chronic fatigue! I was jabbering a mile a minute about food because I was freaking out and unhealthily coping via food obsession, not because I'm some paragon of health and virtue for being a vegetarian. In fact, that "energy" was directly connected to my eating disorder and other mental and physical illnesses. So like, fuck you dude.

#text post #my post #it was also kind of funny #but mostly just annoying #and directly connected to what i was talking about last night #the good news is my favorite cookies were on sale #and also now i'm home and showered and have groceries and can be a lump #bc i expended a LOT of energy today and now i am exhausted