When did you realize you were a hippie?

A long, long time ago . . . early 1970's for certain; perhaps an inkling 1968 or 1969.

 

Just now ^_^
i want to learn more-there's such a wealth of information on this site. I dnt know where to start..!


-"the crooks of the biscuit..is the apostrophe" (Frank Zappa)

 

Why is there even a poll option "Like to smoke pot"?

Like smoking pot makes you a hippie...

 

this is pretty much the way I think. I have never labled myself and I hate lables anyways. I grew up on the The Doors, The Bob Dylan and The Dead. Knew every lyric to 90% of the Beatle songs and worshipped Janis Joplin and Hendrix. I always wear skirts and dresses and my hair long
my mother taught me all about green peace and loving the enviroment and all people. and i discovered drugs on my own and use them to enhance my mind and my art. if that makes me a hippie so be it but why do I have to lable myself as one.

 

For me, it was a very gradual process. I grew up in a "mainstream" family. I went to a conservative all girls Catholic high school. I was always "different" than other people, but I was also an introvert and this was not apparent to everyone around me.

I left for NYC for college ... and, very quickly, realized that "mainstream" life and choices were not for me. I dropped out of college, and that started me on alternative path towards natural living, herbal experimentation , "under the table" jobs, belief in total, individual freedom, etc. I never thought, though, "I'm a hippy." However, I noticed that most of my friends were hippies in the 60's (they're older than I am), and I have much more in common with them in terms of values and philosophy than anyone else.

 

i didnt chose, want or decide to be a hippie... i dont even know if i am a hippie... i'm just me...

 

early adolescence for me. it was right around the time when i started becoming proud of my liberal self.

 

I used to spend a lot of time in trees when I was a kid and got into being at one with nature then I suppose. Then I discovered puff and acid at 14 or thereabouts, and the rest, as they say, is a mystery.

 

I think I answered this before. It was 1966 I was 14, seemed the right thing to do. But it also got me short term memory loss. I can't remember if I answered this already. Oh well Viva la hippies.

Peace

 

well, it started when my dad gave me this little carved wooden box full of bracelets and necklaces that were his in the 1960's, he also let me take what i wanted fromhis CD/Album collection. Jethro Tull, The Beatles, Zeppelin...but i think it really started when i heard my first Phish song =)

 

i can't answer that question... because some details as music and sometimes the way i'm dressed is more or less hippie... but i m a real solitary man... and solitary is not really a hippie thing...
ok i'm a member of Greenpeace... and i listen to psychedelic "far out" music...(and not only naturally)...
but to be an hippie i think that we have to had friends and brothers... solitary...is a none sense... really i'm not sure to be an hippie...
and an hippie got to be happy or not ?


...I'm in search (of the lost chord)...

 

i get called a hippie a lot but i dont feel i am a hippie.. i do have the same beleifs as the "hppies" and i am drawn to them and love the music.. and i look like them. but i dont feel that i can lable myself one. it makes me feel like a poser.. yea no. i cant stand the people out there who think they are a hippies just because they have a head band and colorful vest=[ they make me sad..

but that said the moment i knew i was what i am was when i was driving down the highway windows down and the song sweet emotion by aerosmith came on.. i knew right then and there that is the way the rest of my life would be!!!!!=]]]

 

I feel the same as you about people dressed "too much" as hippies... i was like that some years ago... but now i just can't be dressed like that...i'm too inconfortable inside (xpt if i have drink...but hippies are not supposed to be 2 much drunk...to be themself...it's not supposed to be their drug...)

But i think that you can be dressed as an hippie and not bein a "cliché"... if it's cool and original...and beautiful...that's all right...

about Aerosmith...i'm a fan of their mid 70s work... they were just at their summith there... sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet-emoooooootion!
that's real real rock n roll

NB: if april lavigne is on the corner of hollywood bvd... i will jump right away upon my big unstoppeable Caterpillar

 

I've always been peaceful and accepting of others (for the most part, I'm still trying to rid myself of this flaw.) Last year I decided to become a pacifist and I've been a vegetarian since 5th grade. I haven't really been considered a hippie since 8th grade when I did an incredible amount of research on the music, and the 1960's movement and culture.

So it's a draw between childhood and early adolescence.

 

All my friends started calling me a hippie so i guess they kinda let me know .

 

well being a "hippie" can mean alot of different things...

to some being a hippie means you smoke pot, say "psychadelic" a million times in one sentance, live in a cartoon world, and wear nothing but tye-dye shirts....
(not saying any of thats bad, but thats just a typical stereotype)


but to me, "hippie" means more like, having no worries.
it seems like the world is just too up tight, and instead of relaxing and taking things easy, people just rather tear eachother apart.... but hippies are completely different.


idk, i guess ive always been a hippie.
meaning, i was born to keep the peace and love life and everyone in it.

but thats just me man.
hope it anwsered your question
=)

 

I guess my "realization" was around the time I was getting near to 16. It just happened, one day, that I realised I didn't want to keep on eating fast food, wearing the same clothes as everyone else, thinking what commercials told me to think, etc., so I stopped.

Now that I think about it, every good decision I've made (or almost) has been on an instant whim.

 

I've been hippie all my life but I finally realized it when I was pretty much homeless swinging poi to a violen in front of a bon fire at a party that we had to make cause we turned the power off in respect of earth hour.

 

Agree....

 

the general lifestyle and state of mind of being real.. caring about one another and the earth, and peace, a hippie is the closest things i can be categorized into. I am just me.

also I am a light worker, not the stereotypical one, much like potsmoking and grateful dead and literal tree hugging is to hippie. but a light worker

the truth is out there. litterally..