I would wanna here how did you become hippies in the sixties/seventies cause i think it wasn't so easy those days to be a hippie.
I'll take a shot at this-noone else is-in 65 and 66 in San Francisco there was a group of people that were smoking pot and eating acid and listening to the local groups play every night and in the parks on the weekends. We all started growing hair and the girls were wearing min-skirts and flowing blouses. The newspapers and magazines started calling people that looked like us hippys-There was no joining nothing-if you were eating owsleys acid and running with a certain group and spending time in the Haight Ashbury district of SF-you were called a hippy-it spread from there-
hello child...and peace to you for me it was always knowing that i listened to a different drummer, and cared about the best things in this life...the animals, the land, letting others be in peace....I have always been a mellow, kind person...and at the young age of 10 i met kindred souls playing music, protesting the war, loving one another, and just being...with no harm to other people. this was the late 60's...67 to be exact...and i was in honolulu hawaii, as a child of military parents...when i saw a long, flowing hair, beauty playing her guitar in a fountain....i struck up a conversation, with her and her friends, and felt i had been welcomed home...i had found people who played to the same drummer as i did, who cared and loved as i did, and who were kindred souls....many years later, i am now in upstate ny, usa and am still listening to my own drummer, loving those who others' often don't, or can't, and being a kind, mellow soul...to me being a hippy is more about whats' on the inside....peace and love
I always just listend to my heart! I watched all the crap that was going on on the news everynight, vietnam,the killings at kent state ,kings assasination, anti-war protesters getting their ass kicked, hippies getting their asses kicked,it was all very frightening. But my heart told me who was rightious and who was wrong!
For me it had to do with wanting to strive for something better. I was questioning the need for war, violence, materialism, living by the clock, merely doing things because they had been done by tradition, many different things. Young people should be idealistic and help society think and dream about being better. I think the youth movement at that time played a role in this direction. The things that led to being trapped, though, were selfishness, being self-centered, sex without commitment, drug use. Many folks are not here to answer your question because they were injured by the abuse of their bodies, quite frankly.
Hi, everyone! I'm a twenty-year-old girl who just wants to follow her path in live. After some bad experiences and a period of confusion I began to think that life was probably meant to be shared with others, even if it was more difficult to do so than to live alone so I tried to relate with others and to learn from them. Trouble is I've noticed I tend to feel a bit lost. I feel like others are understanding things that I don't, I have lots of trouble to figure out what the others wanna tell me- specially if they're not straightforward. I kind of panick at certain situations. Sometimes I think probably I'm not used to be with others since during most of my life I only related in a sort of meaningful way with a restricted number of members of my family. I don't know what to expect from the kind of relation that is called 'friendship'. Therefore is so difficult for me to trust people. I don't want to spend the rest of my life like this. Somebody knows where could this sensations come from? Or how to deal with them?
Oops I just wanna say sorry, I posted this at the wrong place, I think. I have started I new thread with this post.
There were many ways to become a hippy. I don't think we thought of our selves as hippies. That is just what we were called. Not all hippies thought the same. Some just wanted to protest the war. Some wanted to live off the land. And some just wanted to change everything. We were rebellious and hated the materialistic world that was all around us. Making people compete with each other for everything much like today. Kids were running away from home in droves. Looking for a better way. We sought each other out and banded together. We could be found at peace rallies. Protests, free concerts any place with a lot of people of the same mind. Yes drugs played a part also. We were opening our minds to everything. I wanted to stop the madness of war and live a freer life. And to see if our way of thinking could work it's way into main stream America. It did not. I don't know how easy it was to be a hippy back then I had no problem with it. You would take a lot of shit from the straight crowd but you just look the other way. About the best I can do for ya. Peace
