Real Talk: My New Glasses & The Truth About Hipsters

Day before yesterday, I bought these glasses; they're fake. I was shopping with my friend Ashley at Aventura Mall. "They're so hipster", she responded when I asked her if she liked them. For a split second, I debated as to whether or not I should get them.

When it comes to what I like, there are only two groups I identify with: things that I think are dope, and things that I think are not. I've never been one to care if something is in, or trendy, or from a particular style group. Ashley being the wonderful individual that she is, quickly remarked, "Get 'em, they look cute. Who cares if they're hipster!" So I did. Fake or not, my glasses allowed me to see certain things a little more clearly...

I am so sick of those people who knock everything that becomes mainstream and popular, just because it's mainstream or popular. I don't mean people who dislike certain things for reasons of personal taste or style. For example, I like a lot of things that are popular, but I dislike a lot of things that are popular; like Rihanna. I'm talking about people who are desperate to be different rather than those who strive to be unique. Choosing not to wear something, or not to like something for that matter, just because it's hipster, is no different than liking something just because it is hipster. Being anti-popular does not make you an individual by default. Instead of identifying with one group, you shove yourself into another group, along with all the other self-proclaimed affluents. You're not above the crowd, you're predictable. People who are easily seduced by what everyone else is doing are just as feeble minded as those who are immediately turned off by something, just because it's popular. You're not marching to your own drummer, you're just another played out tune. The other side of the same coin. Despite what you think, you are just like everyone else- everyone else just happens to be everyone you know, that's why you feel so separated from the people at which you scoff.

There are people I know who make everything their own. They don't follow anything popular, and every out-of-the-box notion they live by was arrived at by some means of self-discovery; and they are amazing people because of it. I didn't write this to promote popular culture, I wrote it to expose just how popular the anti-popular movement is- your a hipster in sheep's clothing. Be your own person.