A style? A playlist on iTunes? A personality? Many people believe that to be ‘country’ one most own nothing but cowboy boots and jeans, drive an old pickup truck and blast songs such as “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” by Jake Owen or “Crazy Girl” by the Eli Young Band at top notch whole driving home to your house in the middle of no where. But is all of that really necessary?

I might consider myself country two out of seven days. I might even go a whole month without being country. I love music labeled as “country” but I don’t own a pickup truck, and I don’t live out in the middle of nowhere.

So what is country?

Country for some is a way of life. For others it might be a day of the week. Country is a style; it’s a way of being. Much like one can wear high heels and a skirt to school one day and the very next wear sweat pants with a hoodie and old sneakers.

Granted I love being country, I love how natural it is, how good the music can be and how awesome driving down and sitting by the river on summer nights. But no, I am not country everyday and nobody is country every second of everyday.

Country is more or less living life to the fullest and enjoying every second of it, but who’s to say that being a hipster isn’t the same thing?