I am Eleanor, and I joined because I basically have zero vegan friends. Eating and shopping vegan isn’t hard. It’s just social situations and living in a non vegan world. I’m looking to build more community around my moral and ethical values to avoid burnout. I love hiking, reading, going to the gym, and social and environmental advocacy. I am about to go into my second year of school at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, but I am from Maryland. I think I might major in International studies, anthropology, or French, or maybe an amalgamation of the three, and want to have a career participating in anything that can change the world for the good.

Tomorrow is my 45th birthday! So, I'm definitely going to try to make it to at least one of the two events.

This is Georgia snoring ( maltipoo) in the past she would always wake up right as I got the phone to record:) you can barely hear her but it’s still so cute 🥰

We have hit triple digits and been in the high 90's. What is everyone doing to battle the heat? Definitely do most activities in doors and drinking extra water, any other ideas?

PART 2 I started questioning.. What are we doing? Like how is this happening that A THING like a phone can become such a great necessity that if it’s gone you’re gone.. it may spiral you into a deep depression like it did me 😢 I know l needed to get a new phone that would’ve been the answer but I was too poor I couldn’t afford a new phone my life is done even though I was still breathing like woe is me hit rock bottom hard 🤦🏽‍♀️ Ugh when I tell you my depression got worse 😓 all of a sudden I started beating myself up again focusing ONLY on negativity and started abusing myself… 🤦🏽‍♀️ emotionally I started to hate myself.. verbally I started calling myself a loser a good for nothing, a terrible person, a crumb on this earth even a tree is better than me providing oxygen for us, being a home for so many animals, giving us shade when we need it, some even offers us good food.. but me what the hell am I existing for im too poor to do anything, I'm a nothing because I’m so poor 😩 and NO WAY will I beg my family for money that will make me look even MORE pitiful 😡😤🤦🏽‍♀️ But then... I all ofa sudden seeing my cat how protection my cat looked woke me up 😳 "wait" I told myself "no no no no no 🤦🏽‍♀️ I can't do this moping around like this not good for my cat he looks depressed too 😞" I looked around.. not only did I let myself go but my home too it was in a disarray what am I doing 😱 depression means I gave up ON EVERYTHING means I’m not living im just existing. Is that really what I want? 🥺 UGH 😩 I Can’t believe I revisited this horrific dark place and it’s affecting my cat 😭" I bounced back and told myself "I have to do something! I can’t be like this forever NO" 😤 something has got to give 🤦🏽‍♀️ So I decided to muster up courage to do what I did not want to do and it was to humbly beg my family for money to help me get a new phone 😰 [This concludes Part 2; please stay tune for Part 3]