When did you realize you were a hippie?

The day I discovered pink floyd...

 

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i can't remember when i first started calling myself a hippie...
although i watched a video i made when i was 12 or so trying to get my sister to make a peace sign and then i turned the camera on myself and yelled, "peace! enjoy life!"

weird shit, man...

 

I don't know about calling myself a hippie but I know the day when I figured out when everyone else called me one. It was when I saw the hippie episode of south park...

 

i dont really call myself a hippie im just hippyish, i have hippy tendencies. I like to toke and i dont like wearing shoes im politically very liberal i like nature and peace. When i watched Hair for the first time when i was about 14, then i knew i wanted to be like that.

 

it's how i was raised to be - even when i was old enough to "choose my identity" i explored other personas and ways of being.......but being a hippie is something i just couldn't shake, it's ingrained in me

 

my mother sang me songs from Sgt Pepper and the White Album when I was a babe in a crib. Been part of me ever since, no sense giving it up now!

 

i've been the same my whole life then people started calling me a hippy so i looked up a few sites about hippies.. ( this is one of them) and i started researching to see what it was all about then i realized i've been once since as far back as i can remember..
and i dont smoke pot.. i dont think that doing drugs makes you a "real" hippie..

 

College + pot + guitar + bell-bottoms + long hair +
= one hippie cat

 

I don't know that I am enough of an optomist to be a hippy, but I have many of the same values as the stereotypical hippy (art, peace, freedom... you know the bit). So, I get called one all the time(usually when I least expect it, actually). I don't really mind the label, there are worse things to be called, but I would never dream of calling myself that. If you say that you are to most people(the uncool ones...), then all of a sudden they think that you can't like punk music, or participate a rational conversation because you're too spaced out on acid all the time, or things like that.

But yeah, I thought to myself "I might be like those hippy people" when I started listening to music from the 60s and 70s, realized I did not like George Bush, saw the Woodstock movie, and perused the organic food aisle at the grocery store (around 14).

 

When I stopped rebelling against my hippy parents.

 

i remember the day everyone else decided i was a hippie. i never said, "hey, im a hippie" somehow this girl got on this rant of what a hippie was. she said that hippies were just tye dye and drugs. and i said no, the hippies of the 60's were about way more than just that. it was about an ideal and they did those drugs for mind enhancement. im totally paraphrasing because i know i said more i just dont remember all i said. and ever since then people have called me a hippie. people who dont even know me very well always call me a hippie and i dont even look like one. im absolutely totally convinced i was a hippie back in the 60s and died from a bad acid trip. which is why i have never done nor will i ever do acid.

 

Well i didnt know too much about hippies in high school, I graduated about 2 years ago. After high school i got an apartment and started working. Over the past year or so I have been expierementing hard with mushrooms and Acid, mostly mushrooms because i like the natural high and they are way easier to get ahold of. But in High school i was kinda preppy and listed to rap, but in the recent year I, for some reason,i hate rap now, i only listen to 60's stuff and classic rock, and On VH1 i saw something called woodstalk, which changed my life dramaticlly, I also saw something called VH1 called the Drug Years 60's and it was incredible how acid was enfused with that generation, not just drugs but a whole new mindset, and how we see things. After that I kinda became my real self like I was blind before and now i see, so about over the past year I would say i Transformed into a hippie, my friends all think im crazy, but it doesnt matter because i am my true self, I have become a jedi. B )

 

i realized i wnasnt a hippy wen i went to my first rainbow gatherig, i mean, im slightly hippy, but wen u see some people ure just like, "wow, no, no way, im no hippy, that! my friends is a hippy"..

 

I started to embody many of the ideals as a junior high kid.

 

I was in high school in the 60's, and everyone was dividing up into groups. The greasers (black leather, ratted hair,cleats on shoes, bullies etc.), the frats, and the hippies. I tried the greasers (briefly), tried the frats, (briefly), and settled down to seriously joining the hippies.(You just had to fit in somewhere-or so it seemed). I think I noticed I was more attracted to the long haired men, and also enjoyed the casual dress of this group, and as I explored further, realized that my head was in the hippie mindset also. Yeah hippies !

 

i started to listen to all the hippy stuff and realized i think the same way

 

when i was little and didn't know what a hippie was,
whenever i saw one i always thought they're clothes and style were so cool. and last year ( i was 14) i just realized that i never really like arguing or fighting or anything and that livin in a tent really appealed to me. (i live in alaska and it's winter now so i'll be living in one when summer gets here) my friend felt the same way. so together we adopted the hippie life style. and besides, our govornment is so messed up right now, man. thats pretty much it. peace, man.

 

I was in Haight when the ceremony the declare Hippie dead and the birth of Yippie. Cant say it was a somber affair, to the contrary.
A couple of thousand people and a god knows how many of San Francisco's finest. What a party!
A small casket was filed with "love beads" and other things of the times. The main idea was the days of turning the other cheek were over and ain't going to take any more shit off the cops. With all the goings on, no arrests that day.
........................Alaskan..............................

 

Congratulaions Holly and welcome home.