When did you realize you were a hippie?

I've always hated war, and other kinds of violence. Also always loved The Beatles (especially John Lennon.) I've also always been for tolerance, even when I was a Christian I still supported gay marriage 100%.

 

Hm...I've always been fascinated by the 60's and 70's...the movements, the celebration, the music, the freedom, the fashion...I could go on and on. I've just in the past two years gotten into The Beatles (especially Lennon for me too!), Jefferson Airplane, Nico, ect ect ect. So..it'd be safe to say that I had my hippie awakening around 15 or 16. so the end of adolescense?

I've always been a pacifist and always stood up for causes though. So maybe I've always been a hippie?

Hum. I dunno really, it's just a natural thang I guess!

 

I've been extremely liberal and into art since before I can possibly remember. I do remember being into the 1960s around the tender age of eight... it has very little to do with ganja, because at one point when I was about thirteen I was really against drugs because I'm afraid of cops. Guess I changed my mind on that one, though

 

I think it had alot to do with my mom being a hippie herself..or shall we say closet hippie now. I relised I was hippie..in grade school.lol. Probably around 2nd grade when kids started teasing me about my old school bell bottoms and flower power assories. I think it started out more as an insult and with age people continued to call me a hippie so I embraced it. Now i kinda laugh at the fact that I never really have changed..but i guess that was my start.

 

the day when i noticed all the freshman and sophmores call me "the hippie" and when all my friends tease me about it.
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I don't call myself a hippy, I mean the word itself is just kinda... dehumanizing. sides, I'm more of a Street Ninja. I do what I have to to survive, I believe in Freedom of Life, and that cooporations with their global aims, are a bane on human life. And that most of the Studies of Science are just ways to make the natural world obsolete. I tend to be a bit more, eh, I guess more outspoken than what the stereotypical "hippy" (Sorry to offend) is. But I digress
I think it was when I started to go into a tirade about not being a hippy when someone said I was that made me pause for a moment....

 

silly hippys...

 

wootier...love your sig!

 

I always kinda knew it, I was interested in that stuff since I was a kid, my parents told me some stuff about hippies, but most of it I've discovered and examined by myself...And I showed a remarkable interest for love & peace ideas, ecology, India, incense and stuff actually before I found out that that was what they were about..And music is a special story..I've been playing instruments(guitar, keyboards, and a little bit of banjo) since I was 6, 7..I got into hippie music in early adolescence..and I love it
btw.I'm very proud to be born on the same day as Janis, 47 years later..

 

I suppose it started when people started calling me one THAT started happein around 14 when i listened to my dads copy of Europe 72'. From that moment on man, i knew the dead was were it's at. Guess the rest just came with it. Peace n love!

 

I grew up with it. My mom's a hippie and I remember being little and having memories of Neil Young and The Eagles being played in my house. Good times...

 

bout when my hair started draggin on the ground

 

after i saw the dead for the first time i guess...i was a headbanger before that.lol

 

i get called a hippy but i have done a few violent things at heated protests. ive been hit by pigs on pickett lines and so i have hate. i discovered i was a misguided teenager desperate for a revolution at 15, got dreads and a beard. had been smokin pot for a while. now im an intellegent young man/hippy/dreadlocka/bastard/revolution hungry human.
lets make this generation victorious. the chavs will lead the way with their uncontrolled violence, they will dislodge basic street peace while we get them at a political level. our planet is dying.

to love we must survive, to survive we must fight!!!

 

Round the end of high school. The Dead were good to me

some old pics i took

 

I just realised it this last days, I'm 17. I've understood it because I love 60-70 music, hippy style, psychedelic stuffs, but moreother nature and ecology, peace, love, no jugement...

 

i realised i was a hippie when i for the first time watched the movie, Woodstock 1969, 3 Day's Of Peace And Music! it's just blew me away, it was great man!

 

i was raised by shroomers.... i was born this way.

 

i've always been a "hippie"
i just knew i was "different" since i was born really..

 

Lol, good stuff. My parents were hippies. My dad was the one with the van that followed around bands,(mostly the Dead) and my mom was just a chill lady lol. So thankfully I took on their habits and interests