Never surrender Hipsters were

Never surrender

Hipsters were strewn across the small, dimly lit, warm room, all facing the wildly expressive jazz band. We jammed for a little while, socialising and sharing the glory of the vibe with everyone around us. then the MC, who had been ad-libbing splendidly nonsensical jazz mumbles to the sexy dark melody, announced an opportunity for anyone in the musically inclined hipster art-scene crowd would like to come up and play an instrument or sing. Mike jumps up and barrels never surrender to the front of the stage. Mikes an actor and aspiring singer by the way. The jazzos start jamming, unpredictable drumming and lava-smooth, smouldering trumpet grooves fill the air while mike stands in front of a hundred-odd cool-kids, microphone in hand, getting ready to unleash. He starts vibing and doing the jazz wordless mumble, and then starts singing. Mike ignore, keep singing, shamelessly. To my right, I see a short-haired emo model girl with her long-haired emo boyfriend giggling and ripping mike off. On the other side a big badass chuckles to his friend, joking about mikes singing. All over the place, people are ripping Mike off and laughing at him. But he keeps going. And owns it. Completely sure of himself. In his own reality. The fck yall if you doubt me attitude. And the criticisms start to fade. Soon everyone is cheering him on. The little Jewish white dude Mike that nobody knows is completely unleashing on stage. And they start to respect. Cheering. People walk up and give him hi-fives, never surrender drinks and respect. well, all those things that youre worried to not do, those things that arent your cuppa tea is it not your cuppa tea because you tried it and everybody started hating on you, telling you that you suck? Because they will hate, and they will tell you that you suck. But if you keep going and stay true to yourself, theyll stop hating. Theyre hating because theyre trying to see if youll crack. If theyll break you. But remember the ghetto mentality, I will do this no matter what. I guess that of the many lessons I took and you can take from this whole thing never surrender reality wins, own yourself, dont care what people think, Mike cant sing joke, I think the most important thing to take away is that peoples opinions are often really flimsy and subject to change. And if their opinions are so flimsy and subject to change, then why stress about them? Theyre irrelevant. Sure, take cues from others but dont take others opinions too seriously. Their opinions will change when your opinion of yourself doesnt change. Others doubt you to see if you will doubt yourself. People see you how you see yourself. Maybe not right away as with Mike where they hated when he first started singing but stay true to yourself and who you are will shine through, and others will see that. Not that their opinion even matters. People will always try to bring you down, stay true to yourself and unleash. This guy keeps screamin, he s paranoid Quick, someone get his ass another steroid! Blabbedy bloo blah, bloo blabbedy bloo blah I ain t hear a word you said, hibitity hoobla! Is that a tanktop or a new bra? look, Snoop Dogg, just got a fuckin boob job Did you listen to the last round meathead? Pay attention, ya sayin the same shit that he said I ma fuck you up Matter fact dog, here s a pencil Go home, write some shit, make it suspenseful Boys like, how Vanilla Ice gone diss you? I get the 7 digits from ya mother for a dollar tomorrow. Yoooooooooooo, I dig that movies, I ve watched the final rap battle tens of times, so awesome. You have to be lyrically gifted and a big vocab to think that stuff up on the fly: haha. sends shivers down me bones every time i see it. best part is watching eminem s face as he s about to clown poppadoc.