When did you realize you were a hippie?

Hi, I just wanna know how it was with you guys... how did u realize u were a
hippie? I'm curious!
Was it in your childhood? In your early adolescense? ending adolescence? Or Did
you knew it since the moment you were born? Someone had to make u realize?
Or Just realized? Because you like to smoke pot?

 

It was the day I shed my perfect blood to absolve humanity of its sins.





... Or was that the day I realised I was jesus? Either way, I decided to get a haircut.

 

I started to listen to Beatles and I was always interested in sixties. I remember when I was about 10 I asked my mum - tell me something about hippies, i think they are cool, nice people. I want to be like them. She answered something like " they are dirty fools on drugs......," you know
So now I am hippie, everybody says

 

liek omg!!! i jus luuuuuuuuuuv dis thread!!!!


i wuz 12, and i wuz listenin to the doors and janis when i realized that, omfg!! i jus had to be a hippy! i type the way dat rappers sing, becuz everybody knows its da hippy thing to do!! lololzzz!!!!

 

Hey me too! I got my first cd-player when I was 8. and the first cd I heard was my dads the beatles-michelle, my mom made some comments bout my dads hippie times and well, I was interested! : )

 

dats sooo kewl!! we can be like hippy sistas or sumthing!

 

Wait a second, you mean I'm a hippie..?

 

i like you thinking......mate....lad.....boy...whatever you want to be called....

and yes i too became hippy at 12.....ish.....ok maby 14....but you cant prove anything.......

 

I've always hated being called a hippie even though that's what i get called more than anything else.... but if you really are a 'hippie' don't you think it's a little useless to call yourself a hippie? I think the better question is... would you still be a hippie without all your labels and paisleys and pot? Do hippies worry about the day they're not called hippies anymore? In my opinion, it's somewhat elitist to entitling oneself a hippie. Despite the fact that i LOVE this place, i had a hard time not cringing at some of the cliche's... but whatever, i guess it's better than everyone trying to live up to something a whole lot more tacky...hippies are better than Brittneys and 50cents. It just makes me think of how Kurt Cobain felt when you could buy grunge clothes at Wal-Mart-type stores. If i ever thought of myself in the place to give advice, i'd probably say something like: "don't be a hippie, just be"... oh, and the obligatory "maaaaan"

 

I was smokin' one day, and BOB Marley came on a mellowed me out, then I could never turn back.
Thanks BOB

 

LMAO @ soulrebel51

Someone getting in the true spirit. If you can beat them take the piss.

Bit of a stupid question really, seeing as I never have been a hippy. Used to think I was two or three years ago. Though thankfully have grown out of it.

Realised when I wasn't a hippy though.
It was during a conversation with a friend on here, debating some kind of philosophical matter. While reading through my posts and his answers I could see that for all my notions of hippiedom I was in actuality a really pissy self absorbed bitch. And surely that's not what it's about at all.

I've nothing against the individual componets, still partake in several myself.
Just don't see why I have subscribe to the whole package of an outdated ideaology. It's all just conformity and it's associated bullshit under another guise. Really what's the point?

So yes, totally agree with Earthfluff.

 

It's kind of a dumb question, but I remember when I was about 10 or 11, I knew I was different. I felt like I never really fit in with anyone, and if i did, it was when I put on an act.I didn't like shopping and clothes and giggling about hair and makeup with my friends. Long after childhood I wanted to play fairies and run around in the woods, but that's not "cool" in middle school anymore. There were so many differences, I couldn't stand feeling so alone. I knew someday I would have to face the real girl inside of me and love and accept her. I guess this is how she came out.

 

I say........if you cant beat them.....arange for them to be beaten(by big hairy men with clubs)

 

I began listening to the Beatles at the age of 11 and became interested in the 60s because of that, but I never tried to imitate the "original hippies". Other people just started calling me a hippie when I was about 13.
Looking back, I think I have shown behaviourial patterns of hippiedom all through my childhood already. (Hippiedom being the newest diagnosis in the ICD!)

 

people worry too much about conforming. if you change something you like to do because it's considered 'conforming' isn't that just as bad? so someone goes for the hippie lifestyle and call themselves a hippie. if you're leading the life you want to live then who cares! if someone likes the hippie lifestyle, it's their freak, and yadda yadda yadda. if people just stopped caring about conforming alltogether everything would be so much more fun.

 

I consider myself a head. Thats what I call it. I think hippies are still around but a lot older than I. Now, having said that, my cousin turned me on when I was 15. Then he gave me highway 61 on tape, along with skeletons from the closet. A gazillion shows later, I havent changed much in the last 15 years. Ok, sure Ive changed, but always forward never straight.

 

when i got so smelly, fungi started growing on me

 

a couple of years back my dad said he didn't like my boyfriend because he was a dirty hippy and I was becoming one... I didn't even know what a hippy was, I had to look it up. But based on the definition I found, I'd say was around 15.

 

I suddenly realized when I was listening to the grateful dead and looking at a VW bus thinking oh wow that is like the coolest car ever, that is when I realized that there was no turning back from the path I had chosen.

 

man my mom was a hippy so i grew up learning to speak my mind and to be myself and i grew up listening to jazz music, Zepplin, Hendrix, and so on, i never thought of myself as a hippy untill this year, i was already a punk, but like a real one. i was strongly oppinoinated and then i saw the vh1 my coolest years on hippies, then my frined started dressing it. to this day i dont dress it that much im kinda a hippy cross punk, but i am most definately a hippy.