How Old Do You Have To Be

To be an old hippie?!!
I am from the 70s and 80s but only born in the 60s.... I don't feel old, well.......

 

Old Hippies huh? OK. Say... 1969 was the end of the "Hippy" era... Hmmmmmmmmmm....

Let's try and do some math here...

Anyone born before 1946 counts as; "go ahead, just walk through the door." (as the bouncer opens it for you.)

If you were born in 1946, that would make you 20 in 1966, 23 in 1969 the end of the era, and you'd be 58 now... that would be an original freak. Or... more of a neobohemian, baby beatnik cross.

Born in 1948, would make you 18 in 1966, 21 in 1969 the end of the era, and you'd be 56 now... You were there in the Daze... you old.

Born in 1950, would make you 16 in 1966... 19 in 1969 the end of the era, and you'd be 54 now... Rightgeous... definitely of age.

Born in 1952, would make you 14 in 1966... 17 in 1969 the end of the era, and you'd be 52 now... old enough, you can squeak by too.

Born in 1954, would make you 12 in 1966... 15 in 1969 the end of the era, and you'd be 50 now... old enough to care, but not old enough to be there.

But, Old enough doesn't count for much here... so it doesn't matter how old you are in years... just how young you are in heart.

 

Oh shit, born in 1955

 

Well then!! I'm not an old hippy!!!!!!

 

<----young hippies........old hippies---->

What about the inbetween hippies?

Born in 1956. Yet I have no classification.

..feeling so lost, sniff.

Going out now, to talk to the toadstools....they always make me feel better.

-Pedata

 

Mmmmm.....46.

 

1962 for me. Too young to be a baby boomer. Too old for generation x.

 

To be a hippy? What time is it?
To be old? What is old?

I'm sure that cleared up all sorts of issues.

 

you can be 65 and still be young only if you want too . The only reason why we age on the outside is because of gravity hehe

peace
chickens

 

My signature says it all for me......

 

Born in 59 here, and some days I feel like I was born in 1932, but most days I still feel pretty good at the ripe old age of 45... Its all in the head, and in the heart...

 

Fuck Age, We are all young

 

Oct 30, 1950 , it's great to be alive

 

Maryjane guitargirl--damn-65--and only gravity makes you old?You nailed my ass to the tee!---------although my actions range from 3 to 90 at any given moment!It's still fantastic to be alive.I figure DEAD is a long time,so I'm still trying to get shit done.---------scratcho-----------

 

I guess you're as old as you are, but as immature as you want to be.

 

Yep, you nailed it.....so much to do, so little time!

 

Geeez Sam,
lol. Hummm let's see......yep I was there. I'm one of those 1954 types....you know the ones, "old enough to care, but not old enough to be there". But i was smoking and droping acid at 13/14....but hey!......I wasn't ......"THERE".
What a load of crap.
I despise the term "hippie". I was a freak. I'm going to use the words "free thinker" instead of hippie. Free thinker is a state of mind....not an age. (you got that right.)
I don't remeber a light switch being turned on in 1966. I think it started when the beatles frist landed at the airport in NYC. What year was that? 1961? 62? 63? That was the 'awakening'. I remember ( even though I wasn't "there") seeing them on ed sullivan. How shocking it was, how different. Kids begain to think different. We were in a 1950's world. Everything fit in to a nice box.
I don't remember it "ending" in 69 either. Yeah some weird things happened post 69. Watergate 73, I got busted in 71, went to vietnam in 72. oops! I forgot....that was after "IT" ended. ......According to Sam.
You have initvertly, managed to include some, ( very few on the thread, except for you of course). And, excluded most people on the hip forms. lol.
The "initvertly" thing comes in handy huh? "oops I hurt someones feelings....well, you know me."
I really think you missed the 'hip' thing Sam, if you were ever "THERE". That is a very "un-hip". "hey, ya'll all missed the hip boat, but I was there". You probably can't see it. But I smell that superiorty thing again. Didn't we have this talk before?
I've read some very...free thinking things posted by people from the age of 13 and up here. Imagine that! And I have read some very "Everything fit into a nice box" thinking here too.(just like the 50's!) By the young and OLD. I refuse to be put in a nice ,neat, timeline L7 (square) box. I think outside the box. Gee, I guess I don't belong in the "old hippy forum" anymore. I thought I had found a home....but I wasn't...."THERE".
lol .....nonsense!

thats me not being there ....1968

 

I was born in "58" and I have always been a hippy at heart. All my son's friends think so.....

 

You know Mark... I've been seeing this question up here from time to time for nearly 2 years. It used to piss me off in the extreme, because I was very Radical on Oct. 6, 1967, when we burned and buried the effigy of the Hippy. I continued, to be perplexed by those who chose to wear the Hippy Label, when we were so bummed by this Press Origin Label in the 60's. It bothers me now, about as much as your name calling... Not Much.

I've also seen lots of attempts to answer this question. I figured why not use the mathematical solution. It's as good as any. And it means about as much as any other answer I've come across... Absolutely Nothing Baby.

Being stoned and tipsy when I wrote my tongue-in-cheek reply, while nursing my very ill, 10 year old dog who died the next day could account for my whimsy. We buried her in my rock garden on Satuday afternoon.

Instead of seeing my words, portrayed in magnetic print and devoid of vocal intonation, as a provocation... why not try to develop a sense of humor about them... but therein lies the problem.

Yes, I was there, and I think that my generation, of whom I consider Old Freaks, had a thing called guerilla theater. "Every generation has a hero on the Pop Charts." ~(Paul Simon) We had our own lingo, and our own "in" jokes, and things that were special to the age group that I included. When you're in your teens and early twenties, a 5 year age difference either way was a generation gap. I wouldn't have hung out with someone 9 years younger than I back then... Somehow, it don't make too much of fucking difference once you pass 40. You get tired of climbing uphill playing fields, and they sort of level out a tad.

You know sometimes words can have two meanings... mine are not intended to hurt others unless I say they are, and I usually do say so...

And, as we did talk about the quotation above, I remember saying something about the things that tend to get our backhairs up, are the very things that are being mirrored back at us from within ourselves.

Sam


"Achieve without trying to achieve anything. Savor the taste of what you cannot taste. Make a small thing great, and the few into many. There are too many laws, when all you have to do is hold on to the center. Desiring nothing for himself, [the sage] knows how to channel desires. And is it not because he wants nothing that he is able to achieve everything?"

~ Lao-tzu from the Tao Te Ching

 

Your only as old as the man you feel!!!!!!

Love & Laughter
EnonEmouse