What we can learn from Hipsters.

Hipsters used to group middle class twenty somethings but in recent years the term has become loosened. It's now used to describe the pesky thrift shopping 16 to 21-year-olds who plait their hair and love their life. I've been thrown into the Hipster/Indie kid pit myself a few times. Just because I like owls, wolves, tea, cakes, beards, tattoos and vintage clothes doesn't necessarily mean I'm a hipster but yes, yes I probably am. If anything I am their leader, all these kids running around in their Oxfam clothes and raiding their mothers wardrobes. I will take you into their world and give you a few life lessons we can learn from these little rascals.

1. Love life. Hipsters, unlike goths and emos and skaters and chavs (society really is full of miserable twats isn't it?) are generally happy-go-lucky munchkins. Optimistic skipping about in their urban outfitter skater skirts and Fred Perry polo shirts.

2. Be a romantic. Quote songs and movies. Why? Why the hell not. See pictures either side, cuties aren't they? For these and similar please join tumblr, this is where Hipsters reside when not in second hand stores or coffee shops or tattoo parlors or dying their hair wacky colours.

http://pretty-hipsters.tumblr.com/

3. Save the world, get the girl. As majority of hipsters enjoy thrifting/second hand stores they are helping the British economy. Not only by recycling and up-cycling (cut your dress into a cropped t-shirt, go on, I dare you) they are helping the rise of our beloved charity shops and the charities themselves. They wear your grandads clothes, they look incredible.

4. They like cats and cats are loving animals. Cat's calm you down. Therefore stroking a cat a day will lower stress levels and inevitably keep us living longer.

5. The constant need to blog everything, your life is on the internet for the world and it's mother to see. Makes the whole 'Who you are' ancestry thing easier for your great grand-kids. Freckles and Frolics will be engraved on my headstone, dur.

6. They like coffee and reading books and baths. Something we can all relate to. Relax bro. 

So next time they push past you on the bus listening to their versatile i-pod (Kanye, One Direction and the Weeknd, yolo) in their vans, cut off shorts, tanned skin and pink dip-dyed hair think about the good they are doing for us, our economy and how much happier you could be if you let yourself take a leaf from the hipster tree.