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LW, it was good advice then, it's good advice now.
Don't worry about trying to be hip. Just pursue what you love, follow your own interests, enjoy what makes you happy & provides real growth as an individual. The genuine hipsters of our culture never worried about it, they just did their best to be themselves. It's the phonies who worked like hell to build that hip facade. And today, it's a commodity -- do you want to be a walking, talking embodinment of what someone else says you're supposed to be? Do you really need someone else to validate your individuality? Do you really need that label attached to your person?
Just be yourself. Discover who & what that self is, and live it as honestly as possible. That's the key.
