Some people are
sometimes referred to as ‘bohemians’. The use of the word bohemian first
appeared in the English language sometime during the nineteenth century. It was
a word used to describe the non-traditional lifestyles of impoverished artists,
writers, musicians, and actors and it was sometimes, not always accurately, to
describe the eccentrics among them. Bohemians were usually associated with
unorthodox or anti-establishment social viewpoints, which often were expressed
through a ‘different’ lifestyle. This lifestyle usually included necessary
frugality, and in a few rare cases voluntary poverty. Often, the term is meant
with a negative connotation but who is to judge whom? Many often live this way
to free themselves from the pressures of society. Pressures that are
convoluted, contrived, and counterproductive to living one’s life in bliss. Some people who follow the Dao might be seen as 'bohemians' because of their alternate views.
