You know you might be a hippie... -if you've never had a regular paying job... -if you're a girl and don't shave because you're just too darn lazy... -if you always forget to put on deoderant, and don't really mind that you stink... -if you used so much vegan patchouli lotion that your mom said your clothes all smelled like they were washed in an oil refinery... -if you buy hemp products and actually know that it's not possible to get high from them... -if there's always a sign on the door of your dorm room advertising the next protest you're going to... -if you don't understand why most people think that you have to be drunk or high to lay in a field, looking at stars... -if you spend more money on music than you do on clothes... -if people called you a hippie before you ever even knew much about hippies... -if you know that you never want to be wealthy (in terms of cash - love and peace, that's one thing that you want a lot of)... -if you "ain't got no faith (catholic!)" (haha, Hair reference)... -if you've considered starting up a chapter of Students for a Democratic Society at your conservative, Catholic university, where none of the students really care about anything other than abortion and drinking -if you draw peace signs and hippies and nature things on your jeans and lecture notes... -if the letters you send home are works of art, covered in pictures and quotes about individuality, freedom, love, peace, etc.
If you laugh hysterically when you see something like a butterfly emerge from a cacoon because of its pure beauty. If you meditate at college in the grass even when theres a lot of people around. If you have converted numerous people into Phans. If you wear a pear of jesus sandals even though they have broken countless times. If your more comfortable sitting on the grass than any other seat known to man. If you're the only person who is walking and smiling while its pooring down rain. If you are normally called hippy dude, tye dye kid, etc. If you understand that none of this makes you a hippie but is really apparent through your actions and the importance of peace, love, and freeing yourself from yourself.
If you do your part to help the environment by practicing "If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down". If you use empty chianti bottles for candle holders and you don't own an Italian restaurant. If you own a Volkswagen microbus and you convert the VW medallion in the front into a peace symbol.
If you can't stand showering If you feel empty inside without a hemp item on you If you've ever been an activist If you lecture anyone that makes a prejudice remark If you know the many uses of water bottles
if you have more in common with people called 'hippies' than with anyone else, but understand that you don't have to have everything in common to love people.
If you carry around eye drops in your pocket. If your shoes and socks smell like weed. If you meet up with your friends and you all sit down in a circle out of habit. If the word “skunk” makes you smile. If there’s no food in the house but spaghetti and you eat it uncooked because you’re too stoned to cook it.
Hahahaha, all so true!! This thread is more the characteristics of a mindset really. You might be a hippie if someone tells you you're weird and you say thankyou.
your an old hippy If you can remember 10$ lids and lbs for 90. they called you beatnik before they switched to hippy. when your parents caught you smoking pot they didn't know what it was. no one had heard of flower power.... or seen a peace sign till you wore one to school and you were called a pinko commie for wearing it.
..I answered yes to almost all of those...though, while not named after a plant, I am named after a Neil Diamond song, and that must count for something