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“Hipster”…wtf?
I never considered myself anywhere near “hip” (is that still even a word?), seeing how I’ve never fully been able to fit in, even dating back to grad school. Then again, apparently part of being a so-called “Hipster” has to do with everything being ironic. I don’t know.
I wouldn’t have any clue as to what I could be “labeled” as, (not that people should have labels to begin with, but I suppose that it may have something to do with some subconscious need for Scientific Classification, or whatnot), had I not found the very “essence of my being” summed up in a quiz result:
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You’re the Tortured Intellectual!
Take What sort of Hipster are you? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey’s Personality Test Generator.You’re sensitive, you’re emotional, and you wonder why everyone else in the world exists on a different plane. You cannot eat, breathe, or sleep without analyzing each action to death. You’re usually sombre, depressed, lethargic, but you can be nearly glad from time to time. You wear whatever you can find on your cluttered bedroom floor. You carry books, notepads, reading glasses with you wherever you go. You have friends, but only a few who truly get where you’re coming from. You frequent coffee shops, libraries, and the less crowded bars. You’re obsessed with past people, past ideas, past lives. You wish you could die and be reborn as Jack Kerouac.—————
Yes. That’s right. Me, 100%…so long as “Jack Kerouac” was replaced with “Oscar Wilde”. After years and years of trying to figure myself out; I find the answer to the question of “Who am I?” in the result of a quiz taken at 8 am after a night of not being able to sleep due to fretting over a “sexting” session I had engaged in with a friend of mine. Only in the 21st century could semi-emo, insomniac, web-browsing lead to self-discovery.
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