At what point in time did you realise you were a hippy?

I was 11 years old and my parents were very politically oriented. They watched the news every night while they ate supper. I saw "hippies" on the tv and realised I was one of them. As I've gotten older I've come to the realisation that I was born to be a hippy and couldn't change that fact any easier than changing the color of my eyes, my sex, or my skin color. Too bad someone couldn't figure out what makes that happen and bottle it. The world would be a better place.

 

i never thought of stuff like that but kids in school started calling me hippie in the 4th grade.... they were pretty mean about it tho
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the spirit whisperd to me when i just like 6 up until i was like 13. Then my soul faded away. I met the Spirit in the Redwoods near Arcata, CA not too long ago.

 

When my father looked at me and said "you hippie" !!

 

I think it has always been in me.

 

Wow good question! I don't think there was one defining moment exactly, just a slow process of metamorphosis and discovery.

 

I was in Connecticut trying to become a well-payed
artist, and I could not make it. In one office I was working an ex-hippy told me I should go to San francisco to be part of the hippies...he saw that in me even though I was wearing a tie. I guess he could see how miseable I was in the place.

Not too much later after I was in the village with two other friends for good.

 

I think it was Thursday.

 

Not sure I was ever really a "Hippie", but noone is comfortable if they cannot classify you, so around the Woodstock time, people started to use that to describe me, never minded, and in fact kind of agree.

Never that pure though

 

I really like the idea of this thread and if I could pose a parallel..What is a hippie? I saw a clip from the 60s and this kid was carring a poster with HIPPIE on it. Behind each letter was..H.. help I..in P ...producing ...but i cant remember what the other letters on the sign stood for. Any one know? Anyone know what a hippie is?

"Never trust a hippie"
Tenpole Tudor
Who killed Bambi

 

A Hippie is a younger version of a beatnick who were classified as "Hip/Hipsters," the younger beats evolved into "Hippies", as my understanding is. I was a "Beat" before becoming a Hippie ( Flower Child ) ohhh.. Flower Childen came after the first Beat/Hipsters. I started very young (13). I was born a flower child.

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Far-out.
I've always been a flower child too.
In my soul at least.
I went through a deep depression and it changed some of my ethics at one point.

 

its not as much about hippie as it is about hippiedom; the beliefs. hippie just might be the most misused word in the whole fuckin modern day vocabulary. people think they know what hippies are by looking at them when the answer is hippie has absolutely nothing to do with what you see on the outside. it's about their soul. a true hippie has a spirit unlike others. nowadays, many people think they know what hippie is, but my idea is u can't understand hippiedom fully unless you are a hippie; and hippiedom isn't something you turn on and off. i say that once people become a "hippie" they never sway from hippiedom. i know i was born a hippie as most people i believe are, became inflicted by the government and modern day society views as i grew into my teenage years, then, one day my real self spoke and this cat came home 4evermo.

 

around age 15...
The first time that I heard Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced?


no kidding things had been leading that way for about a year. but suddenly i heard that album and it all clicked. everything made absolute sense.
i thank my older brother for giving me many of his Beatles tapes. Music was definitely the primary influence in my hippie transformation.

 

I can really relate to what many of you have said about simply being born a hippie. I dont' know that I ever called myself a hippie, in highschool we were called freaks, then they called us "free spirits" and later we were just "earthy". Anyway, I think I was about 10 years old when my brother was drafted. My parents watched the news every night and it just made you sick to see all the body bags being shipped home every day. I think I thought of myself more as a beatnik at that time, but by the time I was 11 I can remember feeling this urge to connect with the peaceful flower children in San Francisco. It was an odd thing because no one around me was really into the hippy thing, and I got beat up for wearing a peace symbol. My best friend and I wanted so badly to just grow up and travel arond selling beads and jewlery out of our VW. I never knew I was a hippie....back then it seemed like just a stupid name the media came up with anyway...I just knew I was wierd and didn't fit in. I was lucky to find a life partner who also didn't fit, and together we grew to embrace our "wierdness."

A couple years ago my son told me I was a hippie...he said look at yourself mom, you can't deny it! So I've come to embrace my hippie-ness.

My daughter and her husband were also born hippies....I guess I always knew she was a free spirit, even as a child. He tried to deny the hippy spirit in himself when he was young, but as an adult he has truely embraced it.

 

I really don't know when .... it's just me.

 

when they dragged me to the car by my hair...

 

Gate your too funny, what a visual, thank you

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you shoulda been there...

 

sounds like something outta ZAP.I wish I was a cartoonist. I would put out a comic book just based on that sceen, or maybe it was a flashback.. ohh myyy I need more tea.

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