When did you realize you were a hippie?

hehe people call me a hippy....But hey whatever. I don't really think i'm a Hippy...I don't listen to the Beatles...The only really "hippy" stuff i listen to is Phish...The other Hippy CD i have is APC's Emotive *remake of beatles and stuff*. I just call my self Kris. One time my friend did call me a. "Gamer hippy ex-goth".....Didn't know how to take that but oh well. I am a Kris A poeitc romantic of the 21st century who has pacfisit hippy views. I love life and my God. Thats it. But hey people can call me a hippy and like one person said I smile and say thanks

 

I've been called a hippie (often spitefully) by people since forever, probably 'cause I always had pretty long hair and wore unusual and colourful clothes.

 

i love smoking pot, and i have always been against killing and loved the woods and peace, i started doing diablo a few years ago os i guess its kind of spread out

 

What is "Doing Diablo" . . .? I have never heard this phrase.

 

I didn't realize I was a "hippy" until I was a kid and went to school. Due to zoning, I ended up at an elementary with the rich kids (I lived in the country and they had to stick me somewhere)...I dressed different, had a different view of things, this is where I truly learned peace and tolerance, because those little kids could really be mean if one was not "in their clique", I shrugged them off as being shallow and didn't worry too much about them. Peace and tolerance, skills that have lasted a lifetime.
Carly

 

I recently realised that I had the "hippy spirit" (don't like labels), when I realised I didn't fit in with other nursing students in school, but blended perfectly with the hippy group. So this is what I am. Plus, my girlfriend says so...

 

Probably when I was at the rainbow gathering last year at mount Shasta and there were like over a hundred hippies at the court house and I was one of them and it made me realize holy hell -- I am a hippie

 

I wasn't told about all the issues related to Hippism (is that a word?) so i thought that hippies were just unwashed. Now i realise that i am a hippie through and through.

 

whoops

 

I never really labeled myself as a hippie. Over the years I have just realised that the people who I've had the best times with, who I've enjoyed being around the most, and felt most comfortable around are people who I would most likely label hippies, but I figure we all have a slightly different opinion on what "hippie" really is anyway. Personally, I think many folks on here, especially a lot of the young ones couldn't be farther from my opinion of "hippie", but I guess if this is the "free speach forum" they belong here just as much as anyone!!!

 

Just this year. I've been this way for a few years, but one day sitting around jerking off and WHAM! I said..."Damn, I'm a hippie."

 

whats a hippie?

 

Good question!!!

Shouldn't there be a thread just for this kind of thing, to hear what people's opinion of "hippie" is?

 

perhaps there should... bwahahaha

 

AHAHAHA.

 

I think I was a hippy all through my life. Before I was a teen I used to listen to music from the 60's like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, but I didnt REALIZE I was a hippy until this past year. And I'm happy that I'm a hippy. They're the coolest people I've ever meet.

 

yeah i was kinda the same as snowman5000.
i think i've always been a hippy, i've always fought for peace and i used to listen alot to that kind of music, but never realized i was a hippy. but now that i have i'm happier than ever

 

I don't think I am a hippy. I don't really think hippies exsist anymore and if they do I don't think it's quite the same as it was back in the day when hippies really were hippies.

I think now it's more about the "label" and not so much about the hippy way back in the 60's. Atleast that's what I have experienced with most people today. I think rebelling against society when you are young is all about the clothes and the idea, be it EMO, Goth, hippy, preppy, stoners, whatever..... it's part of growing up. It's part of finding out where you want to be, I guess.

The nice thing is once you do get older, the whole "f*ck the system" mentality slowly fades (never dies) and you can step back and really take a look at the larger picture. It's not about clothes and piercings and saying F*ck off all the time. Sometimes it's just about learning and enjoying and blending in.

So that is what I have learned in my life..... hippy or not hippy.

 

^yeah i kinda agree with you

it's more the principles i like, don't fret the small things, look after the earth, be for the most part anti-war, and just take time out every once in a while to reflect and look at the world around you.

i've always been like this, and i guess i realised that most hippie attitudes were also my own when i was around twelve or thirteen. my dad always had an interest in hippies, and he kind of considered himself one at heart. i asked him a few things about them and decided that i was also one at heart

 

Ive always wondered about them and used to think they were "bad" cause they did drugs and stuff...but now I know that drugs arent necessarily bad and all is perception and opinion. I just kinda laugh when people call me a hippie. Yes, I do look and think and act like one bu thats who Ive always been for the most part. I just didnt know that was how hippies did stuff. I think a hippie is anyone who is for peace, truly cares for Mother Earth, and accepts eeryone as they are (or tries to) The clothes, hair, etc. dont really matter.