When did you realize you were a hippie?

I always listened to my parent's music but started to really get interested in the Beatles and the 60's when I was 13-14. From there I started listening to all music from the 60's 70s. Having parents who were around in the 60's I have similar views on life as them. When I would tell me friends about some new horrible law that takes away our freedoms in favor of "preserving our freedoms" they would not question it and think I was strange for doing so. I dont understand how most of my peers can just not care about laws that destroy our constitutional rights. I don't understand the attitude of "If I'm not breaking the law then why would it matter if i (get seached,spyed on,etc). All of that and once I was walking down the street and someone yelled to me "Ya dirty fuckin hippie"

 

I realized I was a hippie in 1962. Of course, the term hippie didn't exist then. All we knew was that we we're young, stoned and FREE.

 

My life underwent dramatic changes in half a year. I was never like everybody else, to start. But I tried to be, I tried so hard to be up until last summer. I thought hippiedom was just a way to dress; I had no idea what I was getting myself into and how my life would be changed forever. On hearing the song "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin, I fell in love with rock 'n roll. It just grew from there. I realized that I was not a republican like I had been raised, that I was strongly anti-war. I began to be dissatisfied with normal teenage life. I started hating brand name clothing, make-up and new music. I heard my first Beatles song, and I was a goner. I had heard Aerosmith's version of Come Together in Armageddon, and wanted to hear the Beatles way; I listened to the entire CD that night. John Lennon became my hero. I started intensely researching what I knew as Woodstock. Quotes, music, encyclopedia articles, stories, pictures, anything I could find relating to the festival I obsessively researched. I learned how to play guitar and wrote 12 of 13 songs in this newfound hippie way of life. I started buying my clothing at thrift stores, garage sales, and a place simply called "rock 'n roll t-shirts". I haven't cut my hair or spent time on it since. It affected me socially too. I was consistently fighting and arguing with the other girls, often fiercely, over things like music, politics and the current time. I got suspended twice, and I was proud to stand up for my rights and fight the Establishment. To my parents' disgust, I was not sorry for saying no to my teachers. They were trying to tell me how I could and could not have my backpack. This all happened over the course of a year. Now, I'm still a devout follower of the hippie culture. I am against make-up and everything it stands for, because beauty comes from the inside. I'm deeply immersed in rock 'n roll, and my fire for Woodstock has not died down. I had an epiphany during this time, and discovered why I'm here on earth, and it is to change the world. John Lennon stands beside me. I will start another cultural revolution.
It has not come without pain, however. Now that I am enlightened to the 1960s, I have this obsessive desire to have lived back then, and I often find it consuming me. But I don't want the pain to go away, because that would hurt worse. This pain means I care about something enough to do something about it. I'd rather hurt for something worth hurting for than breeze throgh life and care about nothing, if you know what I mean.

-Rani Lee Taylor, future rock star

 

When I was 10 I first started to listening to The Beatles and The Doors and Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that.
When I was 12 or so I found out who 'hippie' really is and what does 'hippie' stands for. My mum told me those great stories about the 60's and Woodstock and all that. And then I realized that this is what I believe in and who I really am.

 

i dont know if i can call myself a realy hippie,but the first time i though bout it was when others started to call me this way

 

I realized it at some point in high school. I never did drugs or anything of that nature, but I was:

-staunchly anti-war and pro-environment (in fact, I supported most liberal causes)
-a vegetarian
-a hardcore nonconformist compared to other girls my age
-enamoured with the world of 1960's counterculture

 

Wow. I love your story.

 

Long before my mind was developed enough to remember the decision.

I didn't understand it properly but it sounded right, the more I found out, the more I agreed.

 

I have BEEN a hippie, in one way or another, since I was born ... I was a rather analytical and scientific child, but had an un-childlishly deep awareness and appreciation for life, the Earth, and everything in or on it.
As a teenager, though, I encountered a false hippie who tricked me into thinking that all 'hippie-type people' were two-sided ... thus delaying my acknowledgement of self.
So I spent the rest of high school and my first semester of college living like a hippie, acting like a hippie, but utterly denying that I WAS a hippie.

Then, in a moment of deep despair, I agreed to take a trip with the Hare Krishnas who served free meals at my college campus ... met an aging Rainbow along the way ... and saw that there WERE other people very much like me. And they called themselves Hippies.

 

What the hell is a Hippie!!???

Is it some sort of silly word that people have invented?

 

i dont really know if that can be described but i became what is called hippy at a young age. Grew up in all country WA state, nature grew all around and i was fascinated by nature it self. Music was early my dad is a big beatles fan so we had records that were amazng as well as the doors and donovan. Concerts and Music/Art festivals held in Eurka and other north cali cities expaned my head an Now i feel it more than ever with the introduction to herb. everything feels right now but im only a teen, someting might change but i doubt it.

 

I have been a hippie for the past, well probally the past 8 or 9 years...yeah that sounds about right. I haven't really become, what my mom calls, a political hippie (anti-war, against our facist goverment,ect.) till recently when I discovered how truly corrupt it was. I understand what you are saying bobby, herb really did help close the deal, it let me see who I really was, and will always be.

Peace and well being to all,

Al

 

I've always kinda been a hippy. It wasn't until about 3 years ago I realized there was label for what I was. I've always loved nature and animals, and always thought outside the box. I always stood up to things I thought were wrong and have always been concerned about war, pollution, gang violence and the general direction of mankind. When I was little I loved to run around the yard naked (especially in the rain) and I loved car rides when my dad would play the Beatles on the stereo. As I got older I found I was also fond of good pot now and then. All this and raised in a conservative family none the less. So I guess it was when I was 13 when I really realized there was a collective group of people out there that shared many of my same thoughts and hobbies. They were called...hippies.

 

Actually I relized that I was one at the middle of last summer. I remember how it all happend. I was in my Dads home and he had a movie called Easy Rider. My Dad always talked about how kool it was so I thought why not give it a try in the DVD player? So then after I got done watching that it basically changed my whole perspective on things. I became infatuated with the movie and its counter-culture and of course Dennis Hopper. [: I started to become more interested in the 60's. By the beginning of this school year I started to think about how un fair society is and how the President does lie. I started to care about nature and see things in a different way. So I became more involved in the counter-culture life and I eventually started a time warp in my mind. I was soon infatuated with the 60's and the counter-culture. So here I am right now the only true hippie in my school. Everyone at one time or another here has told me to hug a tree and f*** off....now whats the point in saying cruel words like that? Why cant we all just get along?

 

That was probably the best answer to "when did you become a hippie"
I totally agree
That's how it happened for me anyway

 

When I left my biological family and started examining the possibilities versus simply conforming to the prescribed so-called norms that were lain before me.

 

"Hippy" wuz coined by duh Media, I am my own person, not a member uv any gruupy gropin group, an waz hip an gettin into hippnezz frum duh gate.

 

I've the way I am for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I would harass my poor mother into telling me over and over again tales of her youth. I've always made sure not to judge people and to be friendly with everyone.


As far as the looks, I really like the way «hippy» clothes look. And beside, I'm waaayyy too lazy to put on makeup or to shave. Heh.

 

I rarely shave and brush my hair, and I NEVER put on make-up because I don't believe in it. People are beautiful the way they are, and beauty comes from the inside.

 

i rarely wear make up and brush my hair about once every few days, i get so much shit for goin into school with messy hair all the other girls are like 'oh my gawd your hair.. you do know its messy right?'... -.-