When did you realize you were a hippie?

Being in my early 20's Ive got it pretty good. A high paying office job, nice car, fab clothes and a student debt that could feed my city's poor. Then feeling rather empty i decided to research. I ended up spending a whole weekend in the library and on the net trying to find meaning. Enlightment was the first thing that hit me, then realising I was a member of the human race, no different from anyone else. Then our responsibility of our planet and to keep it beatiful and to cherish it. Now I spend my time volunteering and enjoying the outdoors barefoot instead of parading around in a fantasy world of material ignorance.

Peace love and empathy to all!

 

wel prob bout a year ago so wen i was 15/16 but basically all that happened was i started to be more like me and less like evry1 else and it just so happens that "me" is quite hippy like

 

ermm.. hippyness started for me at the age ooofff (thinking, hang on..) I don't know, I honestly can't remember. I am pretty sure that I didn't just one day decide that I was a hippy - it wasnt just an overnight thing, it's just the way I am I guess.
Wow, thats really got me thinking..
haz xox

 

for me i guess it was all built up, i was a strong christian in church every sunday mainly because it was the only place id ever found that sence of togetherness and love for the world. then things started to dawn on me, i started questioning things further, like how on earth can this be the only way and according to the church, everyone else be wrong. when there brought up with the same belief. and how can god only let in christians when there are so many amazing and beautiful spirits that aren;t christian. if the christian god is supposed to be loving and pure, then it got me thinking, how would i personally explain god and from that explain life and death. by this point i was so sick of manmade ideals and books feeding me AN oppinion. so i began to search my heart and this is what i came up with and believe with all my heart and love. god is everything. god is life itself. its us the trees, the earth and everything we know. when our bodies die we return to our original state of being that is part of god, that everything! so acctually we never die but have eternal life. all of us. ive found my meaning of life as a personal thing. to show love to everyone and everything and share my experiences. i think love comes from within ourselfs, people that feel the need to inflict and pain through any kind of emotion or physicl way are still worthy of my love. these people need to be show love more than anyone. this is not to say they are shown more love but for a person to feel the need to inflict pain on another person, then what must they have been through to feel the need to do those things. what drives a person to that. there is the issue, i feel of any true path. if we can just follow our hearts and live to be pure and true for peace, love and the good of all then we cant go far wrong. if we can go into our everyday lives with one thing being the center of our mind 'that being love' then no situation in the world could possible be at its worst. even if the worst were to happen, we still remain true to ourself and our heart. noone whos heart is bad could possibly be happy, maybe content for a short while. although i do find that hard to believe but not happy. let us love life our self and each other for the good of mankind.

sorry got a little passionate there. lol

Love Elliott x x x

 

You know, when you feel it just clicks and you don't have to use your brain to to appreciate a certain kind of music/feeling...? It's just feels like home. Hippy is just a word.... the real thing is not so stereotype, For me hippy is a substitute for "home": when u feel totally at ease/relaxed and accepted. I have felt like that since 4 or 5, i always knew i longed for something else.

 

eric cartman: screw you guys, im going hippy

it just doesnt have the same ring as home...

 

one day (when I was about 10) I asked my mom what was a commie? She described communism to me very basicly, and from the view of a anti communist person. I said "So whats so bad about that?"

 

Not sure I've realized it yet.

 

I was 13 and my neighbor was a 19 year old hippy chick who always had a bunch of other hippies hanging around in her back yard almost every night and I thought they were so cool. I knew I would be in that back yard or one like it in just a few short years.

 

I went to dinner with my parents and some rich relative, in Hollywood. After dinner he wanted to show us the hippies. So we drove down Sunset Blvd. The Seeds were playing at Gazzaris, the line at the whisky went around the corner and up Clark Street. There was a ton of people milling about at Pandora's Box. I was 16 and The Pandoras Box riots started a week later so it must have been 1966. I thought the whole scene was too cool. Then I saw 2 people I knew and decided this was where I wanted to hang out. That's when I started becoming hip.

If you want to you can listen to "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield. That's about the Pandoras Box riots and the pleasure police beating on any and everyone near there. The Whisky A-Go Go was on Sunset and Clark. Gazzaris was on Sunset and hilldale, the next street west. That block was THE spot. The song "Between Clark and Hilldale" by Love on their Forever Changes album is about that block.

Gazzaris later became the Rainbow. Pandora's Box was torn down a week after the riots for a "street improvement project" I used to hang at Gazzaris and The Kalidoscope which later became the Aquarius Theatre.

 

I'm not a hippie. Go and be smelly somewhere else.

 

it was when i saw the pictures of "woodstock" on the front page of the newspaper, i was 24 and in a very abusive relationship with a redneck. i realized the people at woodstock were having a great time and i wasn't. i got a divorce, started smoking pot and having a good time, found out about righteous music, went to check out the haight in san francisco. and started a whole new lifestyle. that was in 73. been a hippie ever since.

 

Im not hippie, also I hate this tendency americans have, to call all left wing people liberal.

Uncle Joe Stalin wasnt too liberal, was he?

 

Just what exactly do you mean by smelly. Do hippies have an unpleasant odor attached to them? Is that just something you made up to irritate people? Or do you just think people should buy trendy perfume to smell the way some gay designer says you should smell by wearing his cologne? Enlighten me.

 

lmao

 

I havent figurd it out yet..
but it seems to me that it is only a question of time..
as soon as i will understand how to measure people to hip, I can say am I or am I not.

 

to puddin and dingy:
So, if you are not hippy, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

 

When I saw the south park episode.

 

I think it was in my early adolesence, I realized I wasn't the same as the kids who played football, or the kids who went to parties, or the popular kids or anything like that. I noticed many people were greedy and things like that, and I knew I didn't want to be that way. I guess it just came about one day that I wanted peace, love, and music. I haven't looked back since. Labels might not be the best thing, but as far as labels do go, I haven't met a cooler group of people than hippies. Every hippie I've come across is just so friendly, so loving and caring. I haven't met many people like that. Plus, they all love kick ass music.

 

I think it is something that has just flourished and receded all throughout my life... I grew up listening to 60's and 70's rock and stuff, and have always had an obsession with the time period of the 60's and 70's. I always thought that hippies where awesome, and my parents could answer pretty much and question I had about them at the time since they were hippies back then.

But I guess the whole thing really began to manifest itsseld in me withing the past few months when I just thought, "forget what everyone else says or thinks! Just because what they think and beleive is more 'conventional' doesn't mean it is completely right!" (at the time, I was surrounded by pretty much no one but conservatives) and I was looking at hippy.com and decided to seek out the whole 'mind expansion' thing. I didn't use drugs, but I did try to start looking at things differantly thinking "Why did I say/think/do/beleive that? Why do I beleive that was the right thing to say/think/do/beleive?" and pretty much questioned EVERYTHING I beleived until I sorted out what I really DO beleive and what I just beleived because I was TOLD that is what is right. Since then, I continue to do that. But shortly after I went though that initial stage of "reprogramming" I wrote a paper/manuscript/thesis/whathaveyou (jokingly called my "manifesto" by some one my friends) entitled "The Man and His Machine: An Outline on Authoritative Mind Control" which was a two page conspiracy theory on how most authoritive forms brainwash people. After I wrote that, I shared it with several people and a lot of/most of the people who read it looked at me and called me a hippy.

I guess I have always known it since I was a young child and was utterly fascinated by the dead heads who completely overtook the town I used to live in once a year.