What does it mean to get up and move away?
I wonder if every kid at some point in their lives want to get up and go away. I was that kid. I couldn't stand the thought of being in the same place for the rest of my life with the same routine. I wanted to run away; I even packed my bags and dreamed about it before I went to bed.
To me, the symbol of being a "hipster" is the bird. As a so-called "hipster", is it about doing things that haven't been done or said before? Is it to "march to the beat of my own drummer" as Hannah Horvath would say? I think I've always been that girl. The girl who wanted to get out and do her own thing.
I read a blog a while ago where a woman was had decided that she was tired of New York. She quiet her job and moved to France. I want to do that one day. I want to decide that I don't want the things that I have at that moment and drop it all. Sometimes I feel that is what people need, to leave everything, but the essentials. I feel that is what I need. I want a job that requires me to be busy, maybe even travel a lot. And most importantly to be creative.
This society today requires you to have a stable job, a stable home, a stable everything. It's unrealistic. Or maybe I'm just pessimistic and lazy and have no intention of being bored at a desk at any point of my life. Anyway... At my age, at this time and place, I know I don't want that yet. I feel conforming to such ideals at my age or getting into the mind set is a waste of my youth. I can do whatever I want and whenever I want when I want to.
Moving away also entails leaving the people you know in that area behind. But the beauty of today is that we have telephones and the internet. Also I cannot forget the good old air mail. And the beauty of life is there are so many people to meet! Moving away means discovery and new chapters of your chapter book of a life.
Spice things up, people.
Cheers,
Claire
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