I read, or rather browsed through this slide show in the NY Times Real Estate Section of a group of 20 something artists who live and share a house in Brooklyn.
The article was titled the same as this post.
The Bohemian aspect of it intrigued me greatly. You know I am drawn to all things "hippiesque", anti-authority and bohemian. I particularly like the freedom that it brings to be free from all the constraints that society wants from us. Society expects you to have a 9-5, have a car, have all this stuff in your home that you just might need, have a home, have a mortgage, etc, it expects that normalcy from you and some people just don't fit into that normalcy, a small group of people don't and this group seems to be getting smaller by the minute, but yes, some of us do exist that would rather choose to have the bohemian lifestyle; where we bike everywhere, sleep around all day and work in the evening, and spend all day reading and discussing Nietzsche, have visible tattoos that have some existential meaning that only we are aware of, get to go to all the cool art shows and discuss it like it's the meaning of life, and generally just have fun with our lives just being. I don't know. I am not making much sense. I just thought it would be really cool to live like that. As I scrolled through those pictures for a split second I wanted to be one of them, chasing my dream, living simply, among friends and like-minded people.
For a brief second, I wanted to be one of them. I still do. However, today I had to wake up early to get to my 9-5.
And you wonder what's wrong with me.
EDIT: 2017 - This article no longer exists on the NY Times Real Estate page. Tried to reach out to NY Times for an update or at least for the source pics, but they have not responded. Hmmm...too bad.
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