When did you realize you were a hippie?

I have read it on every site, in every book and in every article about Woodstock. This event was unlike any rainbow gathering of any kind.

 

The first time I went to see The Dead up at Alpine Valley with my best friend kyle-
Greates and happiest time of my life

 

i cant really recall...maybe the grass blocking my thoughts but i believe it was in my early adolescense...let me start off by telling you of my first experiences with rock n roll music...my cousin listened to the eagles and the doors and he lived with me and my family so i got to listen to the music whenever he turned it on...a few years later i became one of those people that liked rap...god forbid that happens again...and after listening to many of these "artists" and their "music" i realized that this music had no change...it was always the same thing...the same music over only they were different lyrics and different "musicians"...so that is when i realized that rap is no form of music, just rythmic talking...after this phase is where i bought my first rock n roll album...led zeppelin I after this i was hooked...i had listened to many rock n roll albums in my early childhood by the beatles and the rolling stones but now i couldnt go anywhere without a tune in my head...by then i was listening to rock n roll every chance i got...even in school...i started taking drugs...drawing psychedelic art...writing songs with lyrics that would confuse our elders...wearing band shirts...drawing peace signs anywhere and everywhere...debating with my conformists friends saying that they like...most of those kids dont like george bush now...no they are not hippies but when they first realized that this was who i am they thought badly of me only they believe everything their parents say to them and what they saw on television programs speaking critically of us freaks...but now they respect it...and i am damn proud to be a hippie...FLOWER POWER

 

forgive me for telling my entire life story...or the most interesting parts of it at least

 

No. That's totally allright man...at least with me. I read the whole thing, and all of it was interesting. I'm a little but younger than you, but I'm seeing a lot of that kind of stuff happening in me too. I listen to the same kinds of music, drawing peace sign, wearing band shirts, writing songs that would DEFINITELY confuse my elders, lately drawing phsychadelic art, and I have many conformist freinds who, like yours, listen to everything that their conservative parents and the media tell them. The only thing I can find that is not the same is that I am not on drugs. But that's got plenty of time to change...

 

i had been fascinated for a while with the whole hippie culture and i am in love with the music and it is my life and i had been called a hippie before by lots of people and i would always say "no im not!" ... but i think i finally considered myself a hippie when i went to a phil lesh and friends concert and i was surrounded by dead-heads and i felt at home and relaxed... and when the next person who called me a hippie i just said "thanks."

 

I don't think I'm a hippie, because I don't fit into any pigeonholed group. But I agree with some of the hippie ideals and my parents were kinda sorta hippies, just a little too young during the height of the hippie movement so I've grown up on Pink Floyd and Neil Young and other good music most kids don't hear growing up. Plus I have a strange attraction to tie dye and hemp stuff..

 

well you sure sound like a hippie to me...
as for me i guess i was a hippie for a while before i realized i was... i listen to the tunes... i have my own philosophies about society/whatever... and i look like one... but i never thought of myself as one until one of my best friends started getting into it... and we are so much alike that when she declared herself a hippie, i figured i hadd to be one also. all i hafta do now is start a hippie commune, haha.

 

I just pretty much figured it out when I relaized im meant to be pagan. not that hippies are pagan, but...whatever.
I'm doing a paper on the counterculture movement of the 60's for history (my fav. class ever) right now...and figured out that i truly am one.
And Fucking proud of it.

HUZZAH
I knew i was born in the wrong decade...century...hell, even the wrong country.
My friends call me the walking oxymoron. I love england...but love america and ireland. I love the American revolution and america, but at the same time wish the british would have won too.

Ill stop now.

 

i wouldnt call myself a hippie because thats labeling and labeling people is shit. i do however, agree with much of the so called hippie life style. no need to list it, you all know what im talking about. but this pretty much came about early childhood. The grateful dead, the beatles, jefferson airplane, etc were always being played in our house. i knew no other kind of music so it eventually grew on me and 10 years later here i am!

 

I didn't realize I was a hippie 'til my second year of college. Some of my interests were so hippie-ish that after awhile it just all made sense.

 

I never have, but I do get called one from time to time

 

WOW...As i started reading all of these thread...i was amazed to see that THE BEATLES the ones who really started the whole Rock-n-Roll has made such an impact on our lives...I would deffentally agree with those who said once they listened to the Beatles they then knew who they where and what they standed for!!

 

jeeze. this is starting to sound like my little sister and her bunch of friends. They only dress in black, only listen to goth music, wear black makeup and read Poe but have huge long whining sessions about how annoying it is that people call them "goths". If you dont like the labels, then quit acting like a label.

if someone calls me a hippy, i grin and say thanks.

 

man, i am with you!!!

*hugz*

 

dont worry about what i am(i think words like hippy or punk are very simplistic) but everybody else has called me a hippy for ass long as i can remember

 

i dont worry about what i am(i think words like hippy or punk are somewhat simplistic) but everybody else has called me a hippy for ass long as i can remember

 

I believe every hippie is simply a human being who is inspired to let go of his or her
defenses, and loves the inspiration of other human beings.

Paisley, drugs, rock and roll and lifestyle experiments are optional.

 

what bunk...

 

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