Heartache effect

   Today in school I was suppose to be dissecting some frogs for biology class but due to poor scheduling on my teacher's part we ended up sitting through a presentation by an animal activist. It was a pretty good presentation, basically what the guy wanted to talk about was how it's wrong to eat animals and actually pretty unhealthy by showing us charts, diagrams and showing us videos of slaughter houses. It was both heartbreaking and sad to see the cruelty these animals had to suffer even though we really don't to eat them. Yet in the back of mind I couldn't help but think- Would this really change our minds?


    What I mean is have you ever seen a really sad movie or read a really sad book (ex: The Pianist for both) and afterwards feeling so sad to the point of actually wanting to change something or be proactive at the very least but later completely forgetting about it? I think a lot of people get this way when seeing something sad one minute your so depressed that you wish the world would change but the next you pretty much forgot what you were so sad about be it whether or not your were distracted by something else.
   
     Today after watching the presentation I completely forgo my lunch but tonight when my mom came home with Chinese food I scarfed down some barbecued ribs from a dead abused pig and didn't remember the presentation until thirty minutes ago.
 
   Now I know this type of stuff actually does change people's mind entirely and at least one of my classmates might go completely vegan now but on the majority- it might not do that much. Some of my classmates my become vegan for a few days or hours but then get drawn back in through either temptation or just completely forget.


   In order to relate this to the blog it is sort of the same with movies particularly deaths be it of a human or an animal sad for an hour, maybe a few hours at most a couple days and then your fine. It's very rare something that sad sticks around for more then a week.


This is what I call the heartache effect sad for one moment then fine the next.