Hipster

    We have all gotten the what really makes you popular speech.  We have learned that it isn't all about the # of Facebook friends and parties you go to so I will not go into it.  Let me go over the dialogue my father and I exchanged the other day.

Dad: "One if the youngsters in my office today explained to me hipster.  DO you know what hipster is?"

Me: "Yes dad, I know what hipster is."

Dad: "She showed me this great site called Urban dictionary.com!  Have you ever heard of it?"

Me: "Yes dad."

Dad: "Its superb! Anyway, I have decided that I am hipster.  Wouldn't you agree?  I am not what do you call it... mainstream and some of my shirts have animals and I enjoy folk music.  Thats pretty Hipster right?"

Me: "Yeah dad spot on..."

     My father standing there in his shirt covered with little monkeys jamming out to Kingston Trio thinks he is hipster.  But who is to say he is wrong?  Isn't Beauty in the eye of the beholder? Then why can't hipster?  We all label things and people and through these labels we think that we know them, but do we?  When one looks at my father I doubt anyone thinks hipster and yet there he is with his hipster pride.  I think that my dad is right.  In the famous RENT quote it says, "To anyone in the mainstream.... Is anyone in the main stream?... To anyone alive with a sex drive, tear down the wall, aren't we all?"  Marc here is asking what makes someone mainstream? we will all have different answers and label people and draw these lines putting people in their natural place, but TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!!!!! Just because someone is gay, does that mean you know who they really are? Of course NOT!

Who have you been labeling?