When did you realize you were a hippie?

Whats all this about labels? Why are we obsessed with being able to be classified by a one word definition? If we are not describing ourselves as a hippy or a goth or a chav (english) , we are more and more defining ourselves by our jobs i.e "I am a painter" "I am a cleaner" etc.

You are not a cleaner, you are not a painter, these are merely aspects of the self. The job you do is merely a minute particle of the whole of who you really are.

How about describing ourselves as "I am me" or "I am human" or whatever else takes your fancy. Don't bind yourselves within the confines of a peer group label.

Just be you, you are fantastic!

 

bewtiful... i really hate this thread, i dont see where it leads to.

 

Having a certain look about you is the fastest way to tell the police what you maybe into or not. The point is, it is how people profile each other, and police love the fads for that reason.


Anyhow being a hippie now a days for me is, more of a state of mind, how I treat nature and being mindful of others/
Peace

 

it was when i lived in tennessee, I was standing next to my friend's shaky rusty type 3 holding some shrooms talking about current shit, i remember what i was wearing, brown corduroy pants, mexican hoodie and a trashy old hat, talking about current events, when my buddy who's an uber hippie said somthing along the lines of "we hippies need to stick together" like waaaaaiiiit im a hippy? whoa...

 

well I got raised by hippies and stuff like that so I guess I always knew but I think it was when I moved to Barrie everyone was always calling me hippie and stuff so I guess about 3 4 or 5

 

Its in your blood...

 

I didn't use to consider myself a hippie - and I sure don't look like one. I don't think of myself as "hippie" or all that alternative until I start telling some one best way to wash cloth diapers or whatever and I start to see there eyes glaze over and I realize that outside my "circle" others may see me as being alternative or a hippie. I feel quite normal and mainstream until I venture out and realize that most soccer moms don't have the same outlook on life and child rearing as I do .. I guess the first time I told a group of new moms mother that feeding another species breast milk to our babies was way more strange to me than extended nursing and they all got kind of quiet and looked at me like I was an alien that it dawned on me that maybe I was more outside the box than I thought


Linda
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if you paint you're a painter and if you clean, yeah that's right, you're a cleaner, sorry to break it to you...


bit like saying 'just because i have a penis doesn't mean i'm male'... labels shmabels..in the end it doesnt even matter so shush your traps.

 

it wasnt a specific time for me...and the term hippie is thrown around loosely. everybody calls me a hippy and stuff but they stereotype just like everybody and the stereotypes are far to broad for me so i just stick to saying im an individual who believes a peacefull existence is needed and that love is a step in the right direction....and that psychedelia is the flipping best ever.......but yeah i don't take to stereotyping well so i dont go by hippy even when people call me that. But the general hippy movement is a thing i support and admire.

 

if there were a specific moment, it would of been when i smoked my first heads listening to some ween.

 

Yeah!!!!! Ween RULES!! and nobody I mention them to has ever heard of them. Hurrah ween! and about the hippy thing... well, I basically got into the idea of being a hippy because of pot, but now that's not what it's about anymore. About a year and a half ago, I thought all hippies and most of the people I now think are cool, were complete loser idiots. I was convinced that violence was cool, it was fun to beat small people up, and the way to make it somewhere in this life was to be tough and not take shit from anybody. Then I started smoking pot, and I realized, the circle of friends I had at that point (a bunch of skaters, goths, and wanna-be gangsters), had shitty weed. And meanwhile, these hippies, they had some serious dope. So I started to like the whole hippy idea, and so I started to grow long hair, and then I put them into dreadlocks, and then I started wearing tie-die, and about that point I stopped trying to be a hippy, and just really got into the whole peace, love, and happiness thing. And now, I just smoke lots of weed, and don't care if I look like a hippy or not, and don't care if people call me a hippie or not, and just try to get along with everybody, regardless of their opinion of me.

 

Hey man, i was raised by my aunt and she was a hippie earth mama you know. So in my household it was a groovy happening. We worked for truth, generosity, peace, love and tolerance, which I think is pretty far out. People are talking about being swacked and Bob Marley man, which is something else you know, but that ain't a hippie man. But it's an experimentation, a statement of joy you know. I realized it when I was a messenger of sanity man.

 

this is still going? what the fuck?!

 

I don't think I ever came to a relization...I have just always been...the first time I saw someone abuse Mother Earth, i was 6..and I cried, and asked my daddy, why... and he said some people just didn't know how to respect their mother...the first time I saw a person being discriminated against..i was 8 years old...and I asked my momma why..and she said cuz some people don't realize, we all bleed red....The first time I expierienced the fear of was, i was 16...and I knew it wasn't right and I didn't want my young son to have to go and die for some reason that I felt was counter-productive...I have always believed that people should love one another, and take care of Mother Earth....They should stop and smell the flowers, and hug a tree...and always ask permissiion to cut flowers...and live as naturally as possible...

You get more out of growing your own food, and harvesting it, than going to tht Winn-Dixie, and buying it...

I believe if you show love, you will be loved...but you must first love yourself...

 

I figured out that i was a hippie when I started high school.

 

I've always been one, just the way i was raised. It wasn't until high school that I realized it though, it's been somewhat of a nickname (hippie, hippie girl etc)

 

Damn right. We're pwned by labels.

 

i was about 19 (21 now) when i stopped being so angsty and realised that, without the anger, i was actually almost a hippy. and at the same time, i started hanging out with new people who smoked me up for the first time and introduced me to more people - all of whom could be classified under the broad subculture of "hippy".

 

why yes, i am too lazy to read all of these.

but "hippie" is just a term used by other people to describe people who are generally peaceful, mellow,into the dead and whatnot, liberal, and environmentally respectful.

you dont have to participate in all these to have the man call you a hippie. it's just a way of sectioning off the radicals from the sheep and making the sheep resent the radicals and the radicals shun the sheep as being lesser, rather than realizing that we the radicals, the peaceful,the cosmically aware, need to guide them.

we, as the labeled, need to remember that that word is not our role model, but that the certain values inherent in being who we are should be the only standards to which we are held, and we should only be held there by our own hands.

and as for being one of the frequently categorized goes, i've always been what the man would call a hippie.

 

ALMOST EXACTLY the same story for me. Just instead of the Beatles at first, it was Cat Stevens. Then came The Beatles, Led Zepplin.. the rest follows. Well.. -and also | wasn't 1o. | was 13. And right now |'m going on 15.

"So now I am hippie, everybody says : - ) "

People call me a hippie. | AM A HIPPIE!