Hipster Sister hit 50 views today. Today alone it had over 10 hits. Kind of awesome for an under the radar blog. I had no intention of influencing anyone, or starting a blogging phenomenon, but it seems as if I've done just that. People tell me personally that they enjoy reading about my ridiculous run ins with life ... I'm sure you're all just reading it for the pure entertainment of knowing that this is not your life, thank God. However, I must lay this on the table ... My blogs might come off as me complaining about my mishaps, or you might read about a lot of negative things. But really, that's my life. I'm as real as I can possibly be on my blog. In reality, isn't that what it's for?
I truly enjoy sharing my life on Hipster Sister. Good or bad, I deliver it, you guys read it. I am way too creative of a person to bottle this stuff up. Even if things aren't exactly creme de la creme, I've learned to laugh at it, make fun of it, and move on from it. It's life, it's never going to work out the way you want it to ... you'll either get stuck going in the other direction or you'll get a better deal. That's why life rules so much.
So, how about a little inspiration?
While cleaning out my grams apartment, we found 5 or 6 really old photo albums ... like, from the 1940's old. Now, I get major, serious inspiration from photos, modern or ancient. These photos were more inspiring than Zac Posen's Spring 2009 Runway Collection at Fashion Week. And that was pure inspiration. Photos of my grandfather while he was in service in the Army, in Austria and France, photos of my grandmother when she was in her 20's and 30's, how amazingly beautiful she was, how simple their life together was, how incredibly deep in love they were, even when he was in other countries, serving for months on end, photos of my grandfather and grandmother have SO much fun, I was almost jealous that I wasn't there. It was all so incredibly inspiring. It made me want to stop what I was doing and change direction. Do something....big.
It reminded me to live my life to the absolute max. And just when I think I'm at my max, push harder, go further, dream bigger. Because I'm no where near reaching where I want to be. It reminded me to go and do things that I wouldn't normally do, and surprise myself in the meantime. Shock yourself, and others. Be the best person you can. Just be whoever it is that you are. Don't try to be anything, don't set yourself up for disappointment. Just simply live YOUR life. Why try to live someone else's? Why try to live in a realm that you don't belong in. Find your niche, and run with it. Be wild, be spontaneous. Love your life and live it proudly. Be happy with what you have, even if it's a bar of soap and a pair of ratty old pass me down shoes. Because there ARE people that are perfectly content with just that. Expect nothing and live as a minimalist.
These past few weeks have given me the opportunity to live my life completely differently. So I'm going to take full advantage. As you've probably read in my past posts, there's been a million things slowing me down .... maybe this is why. Maybe a change of pace is just what I need.
Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.
