I smell hippies

I've been thinking about my lifestyle lately. Honest to goodness, I think I'm turning into a hippie. More and more, I just want to roam around and enjoy the beauty of this planet. I want to be free and without boundaries. Fuck, I even let my hair get long over the winter. The problem is that I don't want to do it alone. This is where I hit that speed bump in the road.

The average hippie that's care free and willing to take such a quest has no ties. Not to a job, nor family. They can just pick up and take off at the drop of a hat. If there's a concert 2 states over on a Wednesday night, no job is going to stop them from going. Now this is where it gets good.

I actually know some of these types of people. Southern WV is no Southern CA, so the free spirits are few and far between. Most of these southern WV hippies have one thing in common though... they are scumbags and not anyone I'd want to hang out with on a regular basis.

I don't have any hippie friends. All of my friends are slaves to their jobs just like me. The problem is that most of them don't even realize it. They get up at the butt crack of dawn every day, put on their ties and shovel off without a care in the world. They get their paycheck and are happy to go home and repeat the same process for the rest of their lives. They don't mind living payment to payment and paycheck to paycheck.

Who am I to spoil this for them? If they like it, then awesome. I don't though. And sometimes I just get the urge to drop everything and start over in a new place. If I had a partner in crime to back me up, I'd have probably done this long ago. But I don't. I could go up to my best friend and ask him to drop everything and pack up his shit and let's move to California or Vegas or wherever. If I did something like that, he'd probably ask me what kind of drugs I've been taking.

So, I'm not really a hippie. I don't think it's even possible for me to be one because I voted for Bush twice. However, I'm envious of some of them. Not the dirty hippies that wreak of B/O, cheap booze, and bad pot, but the free spirits that roam this planet doing what they love to do and doing well at it. Most of all though, I'm just tired of being a slave to society.