Deep Thinking
Michelle on Jun 25 2008 at 1:23 am | Filed under: The Personal
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Such serious things my kiddos contemplate.
Sage got home from day camp and watched a Scooby Doo movie. After the movie, he turns to me and says, “Life is going by really fast. Soon I’ll be grown up. Then I’ll be a grandpa and then I’ll die. And I know what it feels like when you die. You feel nothing.”
He looked and sounded very serious. We talked about it for a while. The idea of “nothing” is not something that he has been raised to believe, so I am intrigued. Strange, the things he is imagining.
About ten minutes later, he asked me why people eat meat. He wanted to know if people needed to eat it to survive. He ended up crying because he felt bad about poisoning the ants in the front yard. (This was me, thirty years ago.)
We’ve had the meat conversation before. He’ll go a few days without eating meat and then cave and eat a pepperoni pizza. I don’t ever give him a hard time about it. We don’t eat a lot of meat in our house anyway, although, since this topic keeps coming up, I’m considering just going vegetarian so he won’t feel so conflicted. It’s not like I really like our factory farming system anyway…
It has felt serious around here lately.
Maybe this kid is going to be an activist.
ITK code for Singing The Sky:
His name is not “Sage” for no reason.
I have conflicted feelings about the meat thing too. If I’m at my Mom’s house or a BBQ or something and there is cooked meat there I will probably eat it. But as far as buying raw meat and cooking it at home, I usually just opt for the garden burgers or something similar. If I could be sure I was getting some kind of organic, cruelty free meat I would go for it. It’s a tough issue.
I like to eat meat, but generally opt for the kind that has been raised by friends or relatives or shot on hunting trips rather than the store bought stuff.
Rather than go vegetarian, I would say always let him have the choice or opportunity to have it.
That’s one awesome kid! I hope Baba grows up to be so thoughtful.