How did you get into the hippy lifestyle?

Discussion in 'Hippies' started by Gypzy, Mar 5, 2005.

  1. Gypzy

    Gypzy Member

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    The whole hippy thing started for me when I was about 13. I'd always been really into music from the 60's and 70's and all my 'friends' thought I was abit weird. They weren't mean about it or anything, but they use to call me a hippy at school and joke around with me about the whole thing. Anyway, I didn't even know what a hippy was until I asked them. Talk about oblivious.

    Once I found out what a sterotypical hippy was, what they stood for, clothes they wore etc, I was mezmermised. I loved everything about it, and started tye dyeing my clothes and went protesting a couple of times. I became vegetarian after a while and yeah....I love what I am and where I'm headed.

    So what's yur story? What led you to where you are?
     
  2. Plastic

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    I never just kind of decided to be hippy one day. It just happened. When I was four or five, I was being brought up on R.E.M. That led to more music, and eventually I was listening to the Beatles and the Doors by the time I was seven. I became a vegetarian when I got my dog that same year, and said "I wouldn't want Snoopy to eat me, so why should I eat meat?". I'm pro-living, so I protest and such.

    I don't think of myself as a hippy, but I think I just ended up being the stereo-type eventually. I never made myself do anything, but in regards to when it happened, I'd say it happened May 14th, 1988.

    Now, it's off to bed! Cya later alligators.
     
  3. DeadheadHippieForPea

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    its strange cause i dont really know how i came to be the hippie type kid i am now...it was more gradual then anything..i always loved animals and i have always wanted to do something to do with wildlife or the environment when i get older since i can remember. i wasent into music that much until i found the jam bands and the classic rock..i was never really into the pop music that much...as my knowledge grew about environment distruction, our government, how most clothing is made in sweat shops with horrible conditions, how the meat industrys kill the animals i realized this society is corrupt and we need ppl to strive to help end war, to protect human and animal rights..and to protect the enviroment...i guess because im passionate about these issues and care more about helping the ppl and environment around me more than makin a bunch of cash..i guess thats why ppl started callin me a hippie..peace and love
     
  4. Becknudefck

    Becknudefck Senior Member

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    i got into the music but really got into my own style from there and i dont consider myself a hippie so.
     
  5. peacelovebarefeet

    peacelovebarefeet BuRniN oNe...

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    this is an interesting story for me...

    alright, so back in like 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade, people always called me hippy and a pot smoker and stuff (i didnt, but i do now).. and i HATED THEM for it.. it just bugged me, because back then, i didnt wanna be the "black sheep".. i wanted to just fit in with everyone else... so then went my "preppy" stage.. ugh.. (preppy is not bad, it just didnt work for me..)

    but then i went to schwagstock the summer before freshman year, and i had the best time.. i was introduced to the grateful dead, and others... it was the best time of my entire life.. i had grown up around 60's music.. but i grew VERY appreciative of it...

    so then, i became the "hippy", i guess... the same people that pissed me off back in the day callin me a hippy STILL called me a hippy, but now it doesnt bother me one bit... ahh.. good thread!
     
  6. Amanda's Shadow

    Amanda's Shadow Flower Child

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    I was a born hippy. A real nature girel growing up. And always loved oldies way more than 'today' music. My parents were artistic and Ive done theater my whole life. I also taught my PARENTS to recycle when I was like 5! Ive never liked bathing, although that is a stereotype!

    Peace Love and Laughter
    Amanda
     
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  7. RainbowCat

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    iwas raised on the beatles and janis j. so, i dont know, it was always there. plus, i've always been concerned about the rainforest and cried whenever animals were hurt or when i thought about it. i've always been recyling and using things sparingly. plus, i've always worn bright colors and love buses. and i've made my own jewlry and i used to go camping ion the woods alot. i'm very into loving nature.
     
  8. Ankita

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    I don't know man. :p I'm just myself. I do things that I enjoy and don't hurt others. Congregating with many strangers with the same perceptions is totally fulfilling. I like to take long walks around the outskirts of town here. Or jam out on guitar with friends, the boyfriend and fam. I'll get the classic rock radio station going all day and really get my kicks out of music. Plus I am pretty attracted to drawing and hands on things plus the occasional poem. Clothing isn't much of a thing for me. Guess bandshirts and jeans. Lol. Um I like mountains alot and try to get out snowboarding. Not much of a politics interaction right now but I do support George Bush. I get the sane vibes from him. I volunteer at a nursing home right now as an activities assistant, I'll probably get something in the medical field. Whatever is a benefit to others makes me feel good. :)

    I guess as far as cliche hippiness goes I got an aunt and uncle who are total hippies. They had dreadlocks at one point and them folks got me motivated to check out jam bands without being scared I couldn't talk about it with other people to relate. I try to listen to things others here have at least recognized, classic rock is great for that. :p Plus my dad and me are vegetarians, the mother is vegan I think (don't live with her, this is a past deal) and the sisters are pretty down to earth.
    Ciao.
     
  9. Lodui

    Lodui One Man Orgy

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    I fought a hippie monk, and ate his heart to absorb his real ultimate power.

    This was a side effect. [​IMG]
     
  10. Sage-Phoenix

    Sage-Phoenix Imagine

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    LOL :)


    I grew up listening to the Beatles and blowin in the wind (thanks Dad) always was kind of the freaky outsider or something. Couldn't put my finger on it until I was about fifteen, some how came across River Phoenix and his family. That kind of started me off.

    It sort of felt like what I was after, and yeah had some bizzare ideas. With hindsight I was too pissed off and such to really feel it.

    Now, meh I'm just myself. Don't care if that's hippy or not and can't be doing with the tick box stereotyping.
     
  11. Lotus Butterfly

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    I think it is a quality people are born with. Even when I've tried to get outside the typical hippie stereotype, I've always lived with the ideals of peace and love, ever since I was little. My parents were divorced when I was about 4, and I was mostly raised by my Dad. We lived in the country or mountains and my Dad had me listening to The Doors and Moody Blues and all sorts of classic rock growing up. When I was about 10, I sat and watched the whole Woodstock documentary and was mesmerized. At 15, I was involved in the arty groups and also with things like Greenpeace. At 19, I became a vegetarian. I wasn't thinking "oh I'm doing these things because it's the hippie thing to do", it just all felt right for me. Even now, I don't consider myself a stereotypical hippie. Sure in the past year I've gone to see The Dead, Phish, and String Cheese Incident but I also went to see bands like Queensryche, Beastie Boys, John Mayor, Maroon 5, Incubus, and Tool (my music taste is extremely varied). My clothing style follows this pattern (although I have to admit, I'm not much of a designer label person when it comes to clothes). Variety is the spice of life and it's kind of cool to be able to reinvent yourself all the time. This is how I try to live. Yet those same ideals seem to stick with me no matter what I do. :)
     
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  12. treeleaf

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    Hi Gypzy, I live in Australia and really dig the whole hippie scene- you seem really interesting :) we should talk sometime. I was raised on John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd and The Seekers etc also my family recycles and I've passionately climbed and talked to trees since I was little XD I don't know if i would call myself a hippie because I don't like labels too much but on multiple occasions people have called me that or an "indigo child" whatever floats their boat i guess. I'm just me really.
     
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  14. usedtobehoney

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    I think that I sometimes look or sound like a hippie. I don't know what that means really though. I do remember being really tired of the way I was living and the expectations I felt I had to meet and decided that if I was going to keep living I wanted to live a "hippie-like" lifestyle. I actually googled it and came upon this little website. From that point I really can't say I ever tried to "be a hippie" but I did start opening my mind to some things I hadn't and also expressing some things about myself that I didn't think I could express before. That was about 10 years ago!

    I would say it was something that was always there though. I was always very open minded, creative, at peace in nature and had my own spirituality and morality that I didn't really feel was represented in my surroundings. I had my own world but at the same time, I knew what the standards were for me and I did what I was told to do and tried to value what I thought I was supposed to value.
     
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    I started becoming in tune with the world's natural, economical and moral problems in high school and some activist just woke up inside me. Ever since I'm always trying to make sure people are aware of things going on within our unjust sneaky government and trying to promote action. It's challenging with so many unwilling/unseeing people. Also recently I stopped using chemicals in my hair and make up and it's so refreshing and I love how I can just be. Then I was introduced to Lucy and ACTUAL MUSIC and the rest is history.
     
  16. MysticMitch

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    I'm new here. But was raised in, not necessarily a hippie family, more of a family that always taught me to question authority. Or just question everything in general. My dad said, "Don't believe anything you hear, and only some of what you see." He was always referring to the figures of power in our country when he talked this way. My parents were also about keeping an open mind, about everything. They are the reason I ever tried any psychedelics, or smoked at all. And my Mother always pushed me to understand and respect nature and all of it's many gifts. So I guess you could say I was sort of raised a Hippie. I don't bother with labels though, I'm just a person. A person who like to love and speak without judgment from someone in a chair who thinks he know what's best for me and the way I choose to live my life. And I'm glad to have found a place to do just that.
     
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    Cheers Glen.
     
  18. jagerhans

    jagerhans Far out, man. Lifetime Supporter

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    I just snapped out of all the crap i was taught to believe since i was small, because i was fed up with that bull. all the rest followed spontaneously.
     
  19. Gongshaman

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    People here call me hippie, when I ask why I'm told because I'm seen barefoot a lot...
    whatever
     
  20. Lafincoyote

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    My father was a survivor of the economic depression of the 1930's, and intense multiple combat in WWII, he realized that the only course of survival for mankind was the decentralization of power. When Hippies first appeared in the 1960's he despised them, but later learned to embrace their philosophy which is based on the decentralization of power from governemnt and corporations back to the individual. Stepping out of the mainstream was only natural for me, being raised under his roof and accepting of his life experience, as I have embraced the tribal idealism of Hippydom and have been one for about 45 years now. Like fine wine, it just gets better with age.
     

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