When did you realize you were a hippie?

after i started smokn weed when i was 15 i quit now though to very special occasions only a few times a year

 

Just recently. I don't listen to stereotypical "hippie music" or smoke, nor drink alcohol. I do feel strongly about animal rights- and have recently become a vegetarian. I love the natural world. I am fascinated by animal and child behavior/psychology.

However, I do give into the stereotype in some ways- with my clothing and hair.

 

1966

 

I started smoking with my best friend who learned that stuff from his dad, I was about 13.

 

I was 13 when me and my friends started smoking pot, we were doing everything that straight society then, was not.

The year was 1969, I haven't looked back since then.

 

Today

 

For me it was Graid 7.

 

when i dreaded my hair almost 9 months ago, it kinda became pretty obvious, though i've been leaning more and more that way for a long time.

 

When I was seven or so, my neighbor's daughter and her friends were in their earlier twenties or so, and she brought her van by. She was a hippie, and her van had one of those beds hanging from the ceiling, a small stove, a couch, and it was all very cool. Her and her boyfriend were very nice, and I called myself a flower child for a while. Then I went through a goth stage in middle school, and last year, I started to get back into my flower child state of mind. ^^

 

When I realized the way animals were treated. I became a vegan. I started to really hate the fact that my generation is too busy with idiotic things and rarely realized that there are far greater problems. They dont even vote! What is that? I was always in love with the '60. The music. The civil rights movement. It was really a time of change to me and I can't believe that so many people think hippies were trash or something. They were people who stood up for what they believed in. That's when I realized that I wanted to be like them. I want to make my own decisions and not follow what someone else listens to, does, wears, etc.

 

Early adolescence, I think.

 

as a teen when i was coming to terms with my homosexuality. i realized that my viewpoint was very much to the left of my peers. i became an adolesent in thje 1970's. during this time there was a backlash to hippie movement of the 1960's.

i loved to hike and camp so i became aware of my enviornment. i cared about rights and freedoms. most of my peers seemed to be concerned with material possessions.

 

Friday December 3 2004

 

I should say around my late teens (I was about 17 or 18).

 

early adolescence i just felt that i was different for example knew that i was different from "normal people" i knew i wasnt liking the sheep, follow the crowd, conforming thing, the way people looked down on people if, some examples, they werent wearing the latest fashions, wore cheap trainers or went to buy their clothes at bootfairs.
i loved studying natural history (its been my passion since childhood), loved to birdwatch, hug trees, examine the plants that grew up between the cracks of the pavement slabs in the hell hole of the urban nightmare i was brought up in and cared passionatly about the environment.
i hated people not realising the true meaning of being alive - ie, thinking to be alive was to have the latest gucci handbag or something!!, hated people not recycling, wanted to save the planet, stop people fighting, stop this throw away society and etc i could go on but you get the idea...
i began dressing in bright clohes - cause i liked them and why should i not waer it just beacuse people would look and talk so i experimented with what i wore, became free about what i said and did no matter how odd others thought it was - became natural in all i did, breaking free from societies rules and regulations, did (and do) my bits for the planet and tell others why they should, so i gradually became the person who i am today, a nice kind but mad hairy hippy and soooo proud of it!!

 

On my Birthday rock on.

 

I know what you mean! I always seem to care about something, but my friends just don't care! Sometimes it gets frustrating to the point where I would much rather wander around on my own. I would get into a really mild rant and suddenly a friend would say something along the lines of "No one cares Monika. Give up." I won't give up though. And in the end I'll have the last laugh when this world is reduced to Hell.

 

Care to share your story?

 

man, all my friends have grown up

 

Actually I saw a show about the Beatles when I was 14 or 15, and I saw the images of India, and I started smokin pot and meditatin. I was actually the first kid in my school to grow my hair out, now everyone grows their hair out, but to be cool. I did it to be different, now that im older, I dont much care about labels, and all that, people who look that Hippiest can be the biggest assholes.