How much is enough

Everyone who knows me knows I'm big-time prochoice. I totally believe in a woman's right to choose. My gym is owned by someone who gives lots of money to anti-choice organizations. Not the owner of the franchise where I am a member, but the guy who owns the who shebang. I like this gym, I'm comfortable there, and when I actually go on a regular basis, it does work for me. I can't even get myself to walk through the door of another gym. I'm too self-conscious, too aware of myself to do that. So what do I do? Give up my gym for my beliefs? Or keep my gym and support my beliefs in other ways?

It seems the whole world is owned by about 10 white men. And those 10 white men are against everything I believe in. So what do I do? Stop buying newspapers and magazines? Stop buying crackers and cereal? Or do I buy what I want to buy, and then support my beliefs in other ways?

Money is power. We all know that. And when enough people withhold their money, the world can change. So if enough of us withhold our money from the 10 men who rule the world, maybe they will make some changes in who and what they support.

On the flip side, giving money can also change the world. So maybe if we go to the gym we want to go to and buy the crackers we want eat, and then make sure to give our money to the causes about which we care the most, well, then maybe we can still change the world. Besides, as I mentioned before, pretty much everything is owned by the 10 white men. What on earth would I eat and wear and where would I work out and what would I read if I stopped buying any of their products or services?

I know some think I'm a hypocrit for continuing to go to the gym that I go to. I guess that's their issue to deal with. Not mine. I've made my peace with it. I give my money to those I believe in and I join the phonebanks when I can and I sign the petitions and I never miss an opportunity to vote and I write to my representatives and I do what I can to support the things I believe in.

For me, that is enough.