So the band I'm in played a benefit gig a few weeks back. I noticed many people stayed outside but told us we sounded great. I think the idea was that they were being supportive but it was just too loud for them. They had a our back though. I've been sitting with this idea a while and I'm still quite confused by the whole thing.
How can you sit outside and still be supportive? If I don't walk in to place, is my declaration of support still valid? This brings to mind all of the online petitions that get passed around. Those are the very least we can do. If I am doing the bare minimum am I actually doing anything?
I am very much a get off your ass type of person. If I believe in something and I can do something to help then I try my best to get off my ass and help. I've cleaned up "bad" neighborhoods. I've played games with seniors in a nursing home. I've attended punk rock shows even then I think they are too loud and I'm too old. I've gone to events in other cities to be supportive of the organization even when I didn't know any of the performers. Can you be supportive if you never get up?
I keep thinking about the idea of shop local, support downtown, buy organic and those such movements. DH owns a coffeeshop in downtown Lufkin. I ask people to buy local and support downtown. I changed to a beautyshop downtown. I try to buy clothes in downtown but I don't really have much luck since I'm a lady of a certain size. I want others to be downtown so I'm downtown. Should I be doing more? I guess we can usually do more.
Where is the line of support? Can my online signature do anything? Does my dollar do as much as me getting off my ass actually helping build a habitat for humanity house? Can I say I'm supporting something, a business, a musician, an artist, but sit outside? I have no answers and mixed up feelings.
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