Top Ten Ways you
know you've gone from Corporate Materialist to Neo-Hippie
by atara neuer
10. You used to think it wasn't tznius to show your
bellybutton but now you think it's in good taste so long as you wear
a flowing skirt that sweeps the floor.
9. You used to
only go by the English calendar (duh) but you now find yourself
asking people for their Hebrew birthdays only and planning the next
rosh chodesh event where mandolins and drums are staples.
8. You went from blushing "I think I have a crush on you" to
professing "I'm so into your holy spark".
7. Formally inviting people to shabbos meals is so passé- as we say
in the hagaddah, "let all who are hungry come and eat." (and of
course you read shlomo carlbach's take on this-that we are all
spiritually hungry..)
6. You went from being a breath snob to expecting people to smell
like fresh garlic; from being a body scent snob to expecting people
to smell faintly like perspiration and patchouli.
5. You cut and Tie-Dyed all the Chase Corporate Challenge
t-shirts you have into cute tichels and shmatas
4.You can't relate to people who are actually happy having a stable
9-5 job. You wonder why they haven't quit as they soul search for
meaning in their life.
3. You used to admire from afar band members in Pey dalid and the
Moshav, but its different now that you actually hang out with them.
2.You were never much of a planner and considered yourself
spontaneous, butyou are now under excessive pressure not to feel
excessive pressure when its 19 minutes before shabbos and there's
still no plan. much love, it'll all work out.
1. You are reading this not bored from work, but from an internet
cafe that is around the corner from the drum circle/kumitz you are
late for
