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As you may have gleamed from the headline my name is Viktor Capulet. I'm new to the Steemit network and figured I should start where most do, with a self-intro.
I am a 31 year old male residing in Salt Lake City whom has been dedicated to the vegan lifestyle for about 12 years. In my earlier days I was a lot more proactive in protesting and trying to spread the message, but as time went on I became jaded toward the holier than thou attitude that, it seems to me the majority of vegans posses. Now, after 11 + years I prefer to pontificate rather than play the role of Vegan Missionary.
The great majority of my free time is spent educating myself in one way or another, whether it be reading a book, surfing the Internet or making life mistakes. When I was 22 I tripped on mushrooms for the first time. Needless to say it was the most life changing event I've experienced. I left my body and flew around the world seeing people as upside down drops of water who were gathered in clusters as small droplets huddled around the bigger ones for whom they were connected at the base. As I understood there were two types of people, those who possessed intellect 'the big droplets' and those who didn't 'the huddled masses of tiny droplets.'
A lot of different experiences came out of that six hours, but when it was finally over I was left with a voracious appetite for knowledge. I experienced the awareness of a level of exalted existence. A place of higher consciousness only accessible after death and to those who dedicated their lives to knowledge and the metaphysical. Whether what I felt was real or not it changed me for the better.
At this moment in life I am currently the creative director/founder of Black Market Studios, an up and coming avant garde shop possessing many different handmade goods including accessories, clothing, jewelry and much more. Black Market Studios has been a long time dream and after taking a break from my studies of sustainable architecture and design (with a parametric influence) the wife and I decided it was time to follow the other half of our hearts, so we got to work.
Life is spectacular at the moment. I'm staying out of jail, off the drugs, and as far as appearances are concerned I feel pretty comfortable with the fact that nobody around me knows the animosity and or disdain I feel for them quite simply because I am unhappy with myself. Perhaps one day I will walk the steps to the exalted and find altruistic happiness, but till then it's one day at a time and one foot I front of the other.
I read a great post on here about how social media is primarily a means to make ourselves look good in the eyes of others by telling half truths and spending two hours trying to get that profile pic just right so in truth we can feel good about ourselves when the empty praise begins to fly. So I chose to follow suit and add a little bit more #realness to my intro while trying to keep it relatively short.
I think next time I'll write about my rise to the top of the cocaine game. How I made just under two hundred grand in a couple years and how my fondness for opiates lead to the downfall of my own personal empire shortly after its inception.
Thanks and praise