How can you come to Kaikoura and not eat some freshly caught fish or lobster??
The place is named after lobsters.

Nin's Bin is the place to go.
Freshly caught on the day.
Completely local and sustainable.

Why would a vegan at home eat fish when traveling though?
Because,
I refuse to be an ungrateful and impolite fool when a great feast is being hosted by someone , 
Or when a kind and hospitable gesture is being offered.
I take what I'm given,
whether it's fish, meat or fruits & vegetables.
It is a basic sign of respect towards others,
and shows an open heart of acceptance,
willingness to embrace others,
​and that you are here for a full experience with people.

Moreover,
I sincerely do not think being Vegan is the solution to saving the environment:

I'm vegan when I'm home eating alone,
but definitely not when I am with family, out with friends, or when I travel.

I do believe in being vegan for health benefits,
for a clear conscience,
for the 💛 of animals.

It's not nice to kill,
or to think that my eating something indirectly may contribute to killing of all those precious earthlings,
& damaging the environment
which I care about so very much about,
Definitely are the key motivation for maintaining a very vegan menu for myself.

But thinking on it further,
I really don't think the problem is the consumers of animals,
It's the producers and suppliers at the source that are the culprits for all that is wrong.

You can't completely change the whole world's meat & fish consumption. 
It is as intrinsic part of people's culture as it may be some's sole food source.
The problem with farming and fishing industry is not killing the animals for food though.
It's how fish & meat are being harvested for food.

Never forget that being vegan is a First World luxury.
To flaunt it is like a 土豪 flaunting a D&G / Prada.
Most people in the world do not have the option BUT to eat meat, especially the indigenous communities who live close to their food source.

The real problem is, 
unlike the indigenous communities,
commercial farmers and fishing companies ruin the environment and people's lives while they're producing food to be supplied for mass profit.
Their methods are reckless and cause great damage to land and ocean and marine life.
E.g. Brazil faces drastic challenges when it comes to illegal land grabs and clearing away the Amazon rainforest just for build livestock farms.
The problem with sushi is not the people eating the sushi.
Can you even imagine Japan without 🍣,
Koreans without fried chicken, 
Mongolians without milk?
Eating non-plant-based diet is not Wrong.
It is the giant fishing companies & logging companies & farmers at the source of the supply chain who are in the wrong.
It's the fishing trawlers that take giant fish from sea without farsighted consideration.
It is not the consumers that are cruel.
It's those greedy companies that are committing crimes against the animals and the natural environment that we all share with them. 

The world can in fact very well live with a constant shortage of fish and beef. 
People can always eat/make something else.
People can easily live with emptier meat shelves.
Consumers can work with "Sorry, low supply..."
It is the suppliers
and commercial enterprises
that enabled and continue to practice unsustainable farming & fishing
that are the problem.

The focus created by all those documentaries,
I say, is So off.
Rahui is the best and wisest practice.

As consumers, we should be focusing more on placing pressure on ensuring that all nations are to make unsustainable environmentally damaging ways of fishing and farming illegal,
and impose irreparable fines that must be paid off,
Or let offenders face years of imprisonment for anyone or any company that ever try to do it wrongly.

Governments should be enforcing rahui on all land and waters, invest budget in strict monitoring system in place to regrow all ocean life and replant all forests that have been chopped down.

Consumer habits are easy to change.
All it takes is to change what's made available.
Consumers will pick up what is supplied to them.
Consumers will take whatever’s put on the shelf.
Consumers won't go on protest for sustainably produced products that come with lower supply.
Consumers will also easily switch to using the sustainable options like glass-only, only rattan-only, linen-only, bamboo-made, home compostable packaging if that’s all there is.
It is the suppliers that MUST change their ways.
It is the overfishing fishing companies and rainforest choppers that MUST be stopped.

In Dunedin, I went to a place
​that I'd love to recommend
to anyone who cares about health
and natural foods
​for a visit.

It's called:

It''s not the biggest of stores, 
but it has a cafe attached to it,
and what I'm most stoked about -
A seaweed selection shelf,
which you can pick and pack the seaweed of your choice
and purchase them in bulk.
Of course you won't be buying them by the bulk,
because it's over $100/kg, but how good is THIS:

I said to the storefront person
that if this was known to the Asian community,
you'd run out of stock really fast.
​
What I appreciated was also the arrangement of their stock.
On first sight, it makes you want to walk up to each bucket 
and look into what you could salvage on your grocery haul.

What's more, this is something I've not even come across in Chantal,
my favourite healthfood store in Aotearoa, based in Napier:
you can get walnuts, hazel nuts, and macadamia nuts in bulk as well.

I will share some more pictures below from the store:
The cafe, the kitchen blackboard, some other items on the shelf in store.

And last but not least,
upon checking out,
next to their coffee machine is a Dune reference on a mini-blackboard:

If healthy foods and zero waste shopping experience is your cuppa tea,
drop in at Taste Nature for a nice haul of yumness and health!
I highly sincerely recommend it  ^_^

𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔, 
𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝑼𝒏-𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔.
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖.

𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈,
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒍𝒍-𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒐𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓, 
𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆, 
“𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒋𝒐𝒃”🙄
𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉 👅;
𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔’ 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆,
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.

𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔.
𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔
𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
- 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆.
𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎,
𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝟔 𝒐𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈,
𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒖𝒔.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆,
𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆.
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒖𝒑 - 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒖𝒑,
​𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆,
𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒈𝒆𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰’𝒎 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒂𝒎,
𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕.
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𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂, 
𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝟕 𝒐'𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈.
𝑵𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐, 
(𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒔)
𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒗 𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒂𝒕 𝟕.
𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆,
𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒚, 𝑰 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖,
𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎
𝑨𝒕 𝟕𝒑𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑪𝑪𝑻𝑽-𝟏 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔.
𝑰𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕
𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆,
𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕
𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕.
𝑩𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 
𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒖𝒑 𝒐𝒏
𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒈𝒆𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔.

𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕  𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍,
𝒏𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒆,
𝒏𝒐 '𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏' 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆.
𝑰'𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅.
𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝑰'𝒎 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈,
𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑰'𝒎 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚.
𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒘,
𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔
𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.
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𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏.
𝑰𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆,
𝑰𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅.

𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔, 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔.
𝑾𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒁𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂,
𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑼𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆.
𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕,
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒙𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕?
𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇?
𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍,
𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒖𝒑 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆’𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚?
𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔’ 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍?

𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉
𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒚 
𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚.
𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔...
𝑰𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍.

𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒃𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒐𝒃 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆;
𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏, 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅;
𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒓;
𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔;
𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒄𝒌, 
𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒔.
𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕.

𝑺𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘.
𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑰 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒐.
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒆,
𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆,
𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔?

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝑫𝑶, 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅?
𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒏 “𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓...”
𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚
𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝟗𝟕% 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒇?
𝑨𝒔𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆.