When did you realize you were a hippie?

i have always been "hippie" runnin naked in the front yard since i could walk, starting conversations with people i don't know since i could talk. peace, love, and harmony have always been my motto to live by. people put labels on everything now and it's different but being a true "hippie" isn't about the image, it's about the message of love and peace for the whole world.dig it man :H

 

I guess when I started college I kinda realized I was a hippy but looking back I've always been one. i have this one childhood memory when I was about 8 going to my sisters who were both being mean to me and asking them if they could just mellow out and if there could be peace between us. They laughed in my face but the memory of just wanting peace stayed with me. To this day I still want peace, not between my sisters and I but between myself and people I may have angered in the past but just want to get along with. Also I have loved Bob Marley since I was five; Jamming is my favorite song.

 

i've always known. i dont know how, but my mom is always telling me about how i called myself a hippie when i was, like, 4.

 

As long as i can remember my dad was pumpin the dead. I remember him describing the lyrics to me in early childhood and i always liked the stories but never got it. He took me to my 1st dead show when i was 15 and thats when i knew it.

 

For a long time i didnt understand who i am...
I had some ideals and some ideas that sounds strange and out of time to everyone.
Until when i was 11 i listened the Beatles for the first time, since then ive started to be insterested about all culture of '60 and ive found hippies for the first time..
And i remember that when i read some song, or something about beat generation..for example,i thinked "This is really what in i believe"
Its so sad be born in this years, for me at least.
I wonder if today there could be never something like that

 

I'm not a hippie.

 

I never considered myself a hippie until people started calling me one. All my parents' friends and reletives started calling me "that hippie guy"... I didn't know whether that was a good thing or a bad thing... but it stuck. I've always held many hippie ideals and beliefs but no one considered me a hippie until I grew my hair out. But hippie isn't what you are, it's who you are.

 

I was a senior in high school.

That was about two years ago.

 

ohgoddes !!! my thread disappeared !!!
okay to recreate hmmmmmmmm
I have been since childhood but never knew it. I remember experiencing life's distasteful people and events I would look to the stars and ponder a differant world one filled with love for eachother, peace, happiness and lots of sparkly, colors, the smilies faces came later lolol and I have them everywhere. about 14 i got into prince and he is just the optimomee of acceptance love and of course the emporior of sensuality !
but once I went through my 13 year marriage, lost my mom. and my real life began WHEN I EVOLVED ONLY THEN WAS I ABLE TO BE FREE ENOUGH TO SEE AND TO BE ME. my friends call me moon child. well they used too, i moved like 1000 miles away from my hometown
so now peeps !!!!!!!!!! I n eed new like minded folks to hang with anybody in my vicinity ??? Savannah GA then holla back !!
peace love and light demiana

 

I am feeling you gurl !!!
peace
demiana

 

Agreed. I personally believe that hippie is merely a term made up by the media for the false belief of what a 'hippie' really is. Many people think they are only a bunch of idiots who think they can change the world by smoking pot 24/7 and hugging trees. Many of them in the 60's were only poseurs who went to be ins,grew their hair,dropped acid,etc just because it was the trendy thing to do. They were trying to fit in and be cool. Thus the reason why so many trendy fools went back to being their yuppie selves once the 'death of the hippie' dawned. However,the true radical souls have been around for centuries. Some still are.

I agree with some of the people who said,"When I became a hippie? Don't you mean when I became my true self?" I don't like to be called a hippie. I prefer the term freak because it can apply to a broader audience. But I'm really only a human,not a word.As for when I became my true self...it started at birth. I have always been rather strange. I have never failed to express my oddity even when I used to try not to. When I was a preteen I tried to fit in because I was bullied. Since that stopped at around 12 years old, I've slowly but surely been coming to terms with the real me. Nowadays I have alot of time on my hands to really sit down and try to figure out who I really am. I have decided that I am how nature made me,which goes for my body as well as my mind.I've realized that I am a very accepting,giving,non-materialistic, nature & music loving,pacifist and paranoid human who turns my back on fashion trends and the media, and doesn't trust or like the evil government and their flock of sheep. I've also realized that many people call me crazy,hippie,a freak and a flower child for the way I truly am. Knowledge and awareness come with time...and searching.

 

Around a year and 1/2 ago when i became interested in psychadelic art and music.

 

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I still haven't realized it!

 

I still to this day do not consider myself a hippie ......People always say I have hippie tendencies like going to concerts, Playing banjo, Playin guitar, Travelling just to see things,Protesting, standing up for what i believe in, wearin patchwork, Tyedyes But....Honestly I do not consider myself a hippie...i remember i think i was in 6th grade.....i had to do a report for this music class, And i did it on the grateful dead, I was so happy that i got to play some "good music" I remember playing....Stagger lee, minglewood blues I got an A on it hahaha im 24 now still lovin the tunes.....So i guess i was brought up in this kinda scene

 

Iffy question.

I never went and said to myself, "Wow, I like the Beatles and (insert many 60s/70s bands/artists here)... I must be a hippie!" but I've been called a hippie by many... it doesn't bother me or anything. I'll take it.

:H

 

i guess i always knew.. i was that kid who cried in the playground when people dropped rubbish on the ground.. who just danced to music that i could only hear..i was just differant.. i got angry when people abused the rights on others, the environment and animals.. i started calling myself a hippy when i was about 13 but i was one long before that...

 

This guy's got a great point...

 

im a hippie,but my son i think he is a hippie but can he be a hippie if he is 11?