Hey bloggers and random people who accidentally end up on my page, I just wanted to thank you for being here, no matter how you got here. This is my first post and it is inspired by something I did today that I am ashamed of, yet I think it may have been ultimately good for my psyche. Okay so that may be kind of extreme, but I am a teenager and I am allowed to exaggerate.
So today, while I was working at the carousel (yes I am a carousel attendant at the zoo) I decided to google "how to be indie." I admit, it was a low, even for me. For the past few months, maybe even years, I have wanted to change my style. Growing up in a place where the it item was either Lily Pulitzer, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, or J. Crew really messed with my inner Molly. The styles I had thought defined me turned out to be styles that defined my town as a whole, so yeah blame me all you want, but I wanted a change. Ultimately, I think this all happened when I decided to go to GW. It is crawling with people trying to be hipster or indie and you know what, I wanted to try too.
After many trips to the Goodwill in the next town over, I slowly began to realize that you cannot just become indie. What even is indie? This all lead to my google search today. It brought me to a wikihow page with the title "How to be an Indie Girl in 5 Steps." I read this how to guide as the carousel went round and round and the carnival music that I've learned to block out played in the background. Of course the wiki said to dress like you don't care, but you actually do care and put a lot of effort into it. Wear crazy accessories that define you, wear your hair au natural (yeah right, have you ever heard of friz?), and listen to "Indie" music. Okay. Well...yeah easy enough. NOT.
I think that one of the things that stood out to me most on that wiki page was the actual definition of Indie and where it came from. Indie comes from Independent Record Label, which basically is all the people who wanted to play their music back in the day, but they wanted to do it their own way, to be different. Honestly, I applaud those people because they WERE different, but me trying to be Indie and follow the "suggested" way to be indie is the exact opposite of different and the philosophy of being independent.
I've finally realized that just because I wear flowing skirts with converse or vintage 90's sweaters with Doc Martens does not mean I am being Indie. However, if I do feel comfortable in quirky things like that, then that is ok. Sometimes I like to wear my pastel colored pants and sometimes I like to wear my DIY cuttoff jeans made from my dad's old college pants. Whatever as long as I am truly being myself and representing my inner "spirit" I don't care what I am wearing or what kind of style people think I have. I do know now that I am going to stick to the Indie Philosophy of being self representative; of showing my uniqueness because guess what? No one else is me.
Thanks for listening to me ramble and also coming on my quest to be indie. Hopefully you don't think I'm too crazy, but hey I'm me and that's all that matters.
Much love,
Molly
P.S. Here's the link to the wikihow...
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Indie
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