What social clic do bluelighters put themselves into?

[ugly]

hmmm
I'm know what I'm not.

I'm not country western. No boots, no Garth Brooks, no square or line dancing, no horses, no John Wayne movies...

I do not like any of that stuff.

I don't like motorcycles, cars, football, baseball, basketball... no sports.

If I have to only pick one culture out of our society, it would be hippy culture. I love tie dye, nature, herb, and long hair. I have a peace sign tattoo, my only tattoo in fact. I love to smoke myself superhigh and listen to music. Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett plus a thousand others.

But I like to take Ecstasy and listen to Queens of the Stone Age too. I like Rick Ross, lil Jon, and DJ Kahled "out here grinding" is on almost every playlist I have. It goes with everything and I love it.

I'm a hippy for sure. I still think that peace and love are where it's at. I think groovy is still a great adjective. But I appreciate other social cliques for what they do or have or stand for. Ya dig?

Except the country western cliques I'm sorry. I feel guilty for disliking that side of life so strongly and I don't know why I'm so repelled by it. I don't like Shania Twain or Dwight Yokam... names I see on the cover of Us weekly when I'm in line at the grocery store, and songs I hear because my youngest daughter has been into country music since she got old enough to turn the channel to the country station. She's almost 26 and can't stand me at all. She hates hippies. And weed OMG does she go crazy about weed??!

Four adult children, oldest into metal and occasional 80s. Next one, Florence and the Machine and cigarettes. Third one, weed and soft rock or dance. Lady Gaga to LMFAO... then the last one, country.

How do four kids with the same parents raised in the same house go north, east, south and west?

How do we end up in the social cliques we prefer? That's what I'd like to know.

 

[ugly]

i think about that quite a bit ugly how i wont have friends who i can see on a regular basis apart from work at your age. Not to make you feel orld or anything but at what age did the party stop for you?? i really wish more people in my group would get into drugs more especially psychs i really do think it would be a great bonding experiance if all of us could take shrooms or acid together but unfortunately me and the other guy in my group who take a range of different drugs we both are a bit drug fucked and i sometimes thinks this is why the group doesnt take a range of different drugs

Dude, you have to find your people. Try the rainbow tribe... go to Burning Man... you have a group of people you can socialize with, you just have not found them. Socializing is different than having a crew that you run with regularly. In my early 40s I started to see people going different directions. All of a sudden one guy became a nudist and a couple people got born again and a few people committed suicide and another one went off to live in the woods like a Native American. I saw people fall in love and then the two of them shut the door to the rest of the world and became a couple that behaves like a single unit. Shit like that happens and people find new cliques.

 

[stardust.hero]

I basically created a whole new persona for me and its been working wonders haha.

I did this when I moved to Florida. Seriously. It's is working wonders! Everyone should do it. You have a chance to perfect your technique. %)

 

[footscrazy]

Ugly, I found your post about your son and daughter and their partners living with you really interesting. The trend seems to be away from multiple generations of the family living together, and I'm not sure whether this is good or bad, or matters or not. Do you like your living arrangement? What do the other people in the house think of it? Sometimes I think the inexorable drift towards more and more isolated ways of living contributes to a lot of sadness. My grandma is in a nursing home and I wonder about a style of living that means that old people are no longer welcome or able to live in the family home. I don't think most of the grandma's and grandpa's there are unloved, just that it seems impossible to keep them at home these days, it just doesn't fit with the way we all live anymore.