When did you realize you were a hippie?

my parents aren't hippies.. my brothers are and thats kinda how i got into it all. we grew to be a family, just the three of us and it expanded over time. its wonderful to have a place like this because i can't talk about any of this stuff with anyone else.

 

I couldnt agree with you more.. I just joined this site and I was a little skeptical, but I wanted a place to talk to down to earth people, which I couldnt get with the people immediately around me lol, but yeah... dont be a "hippy" just be yourself? When people call me a "hippy" its almost an insult.. I dont want to be stereotyped but yeah I smoke and no I wont cut my hair, lol, so I guess thats what im gona be called. Either way we're all here because of our common interests, "hippies" or not...

 

I didnt so much realise I was a hippy, i just realised that I had alot in common with them. I dont like to label myself as anything because I am one person, and one person can make all the difference. I am me. And I can make all the difference.

 

thats beautiful nightrose!! and so true. just be one person. yourself.

 

Thank you earthmama120843.
Yes it is important to be yourself. There are people all over this Earth who neglect to see that, its sad because they loose their own sence of identity, they forget who they are and try to become sonmething that they arent. I always remind myself each day that each person is as individual as the next and they too can make a difference if they only realised their potential.

 

The first time I heard the Grateful Dead, musta been 15, yup, I felt it right away, didnt quite know what it was at first, but it was there nonetheless, the inner hippie.

 

I have the free spirit that all hippies shared and i have the attitude of a hippie, but i do not walk around with a peace sign plastered on my fore head.

I do like to smoke pot. I see it as a natural plant. A gift from mother nature if you will. I realized a lot about myself when i started to smoke.

 

when i saw in what shitty world we live in... thats about when i was born

 

Here I am when I was a hippie...

 

it actually hurt to look at the one picture and then look at the other...needless to say, the ladder is superior

 

Come on! I'm not THAT ugly!:tongue:

 

Everyone has a little hippie in them. That's what separates us from robots.

 

Oct 3rd 1969 after ingesting several hits of windowpane.

 

i realized about grade 10 when i was like shit man this world needs our help, ive been truly madly since then!

 

ive always been a vege and had dreds since i was like... 3. my parents hated it but i insisted. it was only until about 4 months ago i decided to embrce myself. i sadly dont have dreds anymore... my school doesnt allow it.
it makes me kinda mad though when people call me a wannabe because im so young. but i have alot of good friends. ok im in such a good mood today! peace everyone

 

i don't know when i realised truly. for a few years i've been thinking about what i can do to make the world better, but it's only now i've started doing something about it and i'm moving on and opening my mind. i guess the realisation comes at the point when you enter a place of understanding. well, it did for me...
xx

 

1971; I read Abbie Hoffman's "Steal this Book" and "Revolution for the Hell of it", Jerry Rubin's "Do It", got stoned for the first time, and started playing music instead of simply listening to it.

 

I definitely like this "hippie" picture best of all, but when Wootier said he liked the ladder best, I went looking for the picture of you on a ladder, and was puzzled, thinking there must be one of you housepainting or something .lol So, anyway I now know he meant "latter" and I disagree with the hippie picture hurting part, while the predominant pain comes more from viewing the cool dude cig pic, rather than the guitar rocking, bead wearing, pose with long hair and a peaceful, natural demeanor. Rock on L.A. !!!

 

i've been called a "hippie" since i was about 12. never really thought about it. for some reason, it irks me when people say "oh, you're such a hippie!".. makes me wanna say, "oh you're such a [insert stereotype here]" fuck it though. i guess i'll never know the truth!

 

i've been free-spirited all my life. my dad is an old deadhead, so that's probably where i get it from.