Meditations starting in Falafel King

Thoughts on reincarnation and veganism.

Meditations starting in Falafel King

 

I'm in falafel king sober for the first time in ever.

I order a chicken and falafel wrap and

the guy asks if I'm vegan because

I don't want mint yoghurt sauce on it.

 

I ponder veganism as I eat my wrap and think, 

 

If I was a fish in the sea...

 

But I'm not a fish in the sea,

and never will be.

I'd be a s**t fish anyway;

I'm useless at swimming

and prefer to breathe air.

 

But then I think,

 

If the Buddhists have it right, I could one day be a fish in the sea…

 

I've led a pretty benign life but definitely won't be reincarnated as a human,

and I most certainly haven't found nirvana,

unless listening to late-eighties grunge could put you in a state of eternal bliss.

 

However I'm not such an arsehole as to come back as a spider,

or a snake,

that kind of wasp that lays its eggs in live caterpillars,

or One Direction,

or whatever.

 

I'd say if I had a natural propinquity with any animal,

it could well be a fish.

I will most likely die in the dark,

killed by something much bigger than me,

without really understanding why.

 

I wonder if I would be a dolphin friendly fish.

Dolphins don't seem to be very friendly to fish themselves.

But if I'm going to be a fish,

I want to be an ethical fish once I'm canned.

I could sit on the fence like a pescatarian and

consume carbon based lifeforms on no more coherent principle,

than their aptitude to express humanly recognisable emotions when they die.

Emotional responses just don't map the same with an eye on either side of your head. 

 

I wonder what I will look like as I die?

 

Can pescatarians eat dolphin?