A little enlightenment please?

Why is it that all of a sudden all of these kids want to be hippies. I guarentee that 90% of them dont understand the meaning of hippie and where it comes from!? Shine a little light...

 

They come here and are like: "Cool! Hippies! I wanna fit in!"

 

Its kinda cool that their interested in the hippie culture but at the same time when i see these threads askin "how do i become a hippie" it really aggrevates me at how clueless they can be

 

Yeah, it's a bit sad that they believe they have to become a steryotype.

 

You can't reject those who don't understand, Everyone is looking for love and kindness if this is shown they will free their minds, let the revolution happen it has already begun

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to be a hippie, even if the kids apparently don't understand what it means. And do you 100% understand what it means anyway?

At least they're aspiring to tune out of the materialistic society and into something peaceful and with substance, and not into some vacuous one-dimensional Paris Hilton type.

 

i dont reject them... i just wish that theyd understand the original movement and not go along w/ the lifestyle just to do it, i think its great that more and more youngins are becoming interested but i think they should be doing it for the right reasons

 

Exactly!

 

ya, but at least they're tryin. maybe they'll pick up on the peace and love. and there can never be anough vegetarians, or environmentalists, or people going to protests, right? it's a good thing, a little bit, because it keeps the hippie spirit around.

 

Totally agree with RainbowCat

 

Everyone has to find their own little place in the world. I'd much rather hear "how do I become a hippy", than "i wanna be a gangsta and sling crack on the corner". I think it's great that they want to escape violence and all the bullshit out there. I'm sure you didn't understand the hippy lifestyle completely at 14 yourself. Gotta start somewhere, ya know??

 

It first takes the interest of the people before organization can occur and eventually revolution.

 

Yes, I agree with sugarmaggie, but I also see gethappy's point of view.

 

just show these cats & girlys the love ... please don't be irritated with them ... how cool it is to see someone starting to get it ... they're a lot closer than you think, just love

 

Wow, and here I was wondering the same exact thing. Now, I know that I'm not all that old myself, going on 27 years old age, but I am the child of a flowerchild mother, and I always loved the way she was, and this is not something new. I've been her little flower-baby since I was born. She gets a kick out of how I am today and still recalls how I was as a little girl, her little baby flowerchild. She loves that I'm so much like she was, with my beliefs, with things I do, with my environmental concerns, and with my passion to be more natural even in such an unnatural, fast-paced world, and my forever desire for peace and love.

It was funny, because I almost felt like I was "strange" before I found this site. No one I knew, besides my mother, seemed to think like me. Even my own husband would tease me at times, and his friends and their wives would look at me like I was insane when they found out that my kids had never eaten or drank most of the things that their children consumed on a daily basis, and how I was so into the "right fuel" for their bodies and not seduced by the "junk foods", and how my kids weren't glued to the television or video game console all day, that they loved being outside, running in their little bare feet and minimal clothing while their mommy, clad in sundresses, sat barefoot in the grass with flowers that her children had picked in her hair. *sighs* Oh how I miss the warm days.

But I feel proud of who I am, and I've come to the realization that, unfortunately, there are not enough people out there like this, not enough people who want to "get back to their roots", be more natural, and live a more simple life, and be more of a peaceful society. Instead, so many are driven by greed and hunger for violence, little regards to the planet in which they live, or the people who inhabit it.

Anyway.

 

Hell, we should be encouraging people's curiosity about the hippie movement like MOsEs said, and encourage them to join it. Let's not be elitist about it, ie I'm more hippie than you because I know more about it. That's not the spirit of being a hippie: acceptance is. Plus no-one will ever be on the same level as the next person, in anything, because everyone is different.

Sorry GeT_hApPy I know what you're getting at but IMO the kids are definitely going down the right track.

 

thank you! you've made me happy!

 

exactly!

 

I am somewhere in between the original hippies and all the new young hippies. I first started listening to bands like the doors, moody blues, beatles, and Jimi Hendrix when I was born (due to my father). At 11 I watched the Woodstock video and was mesmerized. By the age of 15, I was hanging peace signs and supporting Green Peace. By 19 I started eating mushrooms and doing alot of rediscovering my values and beliefs. At 20 I became a vegetarian. Now I am 30, a vegan, massage therapist, who practices yoga, meditation and acceptance towards all beings. I still listen to the same music I did when I was born (and more). I'm not perfect. I still get road rage, I talk about change but rarely find the time to do anything about it (waiting for a revolution but don't know how to start one) and I only find myself a bit wiser than I was at 15 and that's only because I've experienced alot in 15 years. Give these kids a break. They may not fully understand the hippy movement but they are still finding themselves and I would rather this be their influence than most other things that kids are trying to be these days.

 

ya'll got me thinkin, thanks