Choices

"...if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy..." - Albus Dumbledore

Everyday we make choices. But how many of actually choose something outside of our comfort zone? Stand up for ourselves? We pick the easy route, the one of usually least resistance. Is it right?

When one hears about things that happen in the media, like the suicides of the gay students last fall, you usually hear how no one helped. Or the issues in Washington and how they rather restrict our rights instead of being a free country with CHOICE. Those are easy solutions. That's how things operate and they continue to operate. To be right would to be to stand up for the rights, to fight for those who are bullied because they are seemingly not the norm. It's easy to find these people on the internet, especially when you have a nice veil of anonymity to hide behind. Most people aren't on the internet. Most people live their daily lives not knowing some of the issues that truly face our nation.

Take for example the abortion debates happening. People have decided that the right choice is to not let a women decide what she wants to do with her body. That's not the right choice. That's the easy one. That's the one that lets men who aren't ever going to experience childbirth tell a woman what to do. In a society that supposedly becoming more progressive, women still aren't allowed to choose what they want to do. Is it right to force women to have children when they aren't prepared for it: mentally, physically or financially? No. Yet that is what Congresses around the nation see fit. Undoubtedly, the cycle will continue. They force women to have children they don't want, to then blame them when they can't provide for these children. You can't realistically try and get rid of government aide while forcing women to have children they might not realistically be able to provide for. Is it horrible to let a women decide what she wants to do? Are we really trying to say that women still mean nothing after all these years? People who don't have to endure the physical pain of childbirth shouldn't be the ones choosing what a women can and cannot do. Yet we live in a society run by men, who we unfortunately still have to obey.

Remember, easy and right aren't the same thing. Right is doing whatever you can to make people have better lives. Easy is what we all unfortunately choose on a daily basis.