Don't Like the Term "Hippie"

Don't you think normal is a vague description? Some of the most interesting people in the world are considerded 'normal'.

 

everyone calls me a hippie man im like the only hip person in my school there like 2 or 3 of us but you know im just a person like everyone else

 

no, they're not. If they were normal, they wouldnt be interesting. It's a good thing to be abnormal.....I agree that normal is boring. There is nothing to distinguish you from another....matter of fact, I dont think I know any normal people

wait....what IS normal?

 

A chinese guy.

 

I don't like labels...and I'm definitely not a hippie.

Maybe a Yippie, but not a hippie...back in the 60's, hippies were burnouts that didn't care about what was happening in the rest of the world...Yippies did care and did something about it.

 

^^a regular abbie hoffman here?

 

If only I was as clever and creative.

 

i call myself a hippie and i like the term. everyone has their own definition of what a hippie is and i take it as a compliment when people call me one, even when i know they mean it in not a very good way. but i use it nicely towards others as well as in a jokingly derogatory way too, at times.

 

Dammit you beat me to it lol. My ex would read a book with the same title all the time....

The meaning of normal in this context is different for every person, because every person is acoustomed to different norms. Though the actual "normal" that I have grown acoustomed to are good good people, I often use the term reffering to the norm of society.....the herd following sheep who do everything the world tells them to do. Are they the "normal"? No. But thats what I think of when I use the term.

 

Well, i'm an hip pea :H

 

I like the term hippie, but then again - I define it for my own uses, I apply it as I like to.

I was a kid when the first round of "pot smoking hippies" made the news - and pissed off a president or two - so - in MY mind - a "hippie" is a person who reminds me of so many traits I admired in some adults when I was a kidlet.

Long-haired, lots of bright colors, big groovy sunglasses, and even though I never personally got into drugs too much (I had fun with them in jr. and senior high school and that was it), I liked the smell of pot that curled off the clothes of the hippies I knew.

To this day - I sage smudge my home and my person with a sage / cedar mixture that smells a lot like homegrown weed.

To me - hippies weren't so much "burnouts" as they were "fuck the anal retentive rules of the status quo - I'll make up my own".

So in THAT spirit - I like the term hippie, I describe myself and my partner as "hippie-ish", and I embrace and own the word with all its positive and not so positive connotations.