Question for an old hippie.

Hello old hippies. =3 I'm a freshman in highschool and I just recently discovered myself as a hippie, and I'm really usually really comfortable being myself and admitting my beliefs to my family, friends, and even most strangers. However, there are a few certain people I just can't show my colors around. It's partly because I was teased and picked on so much last year. When I'm around this group of people I feel totally isolated, because even my friends think I'm a little weird, and I know these people are constantly judging/spreading rumors abour me. (I've heard them. Dx) Has anyone ever gone through this before? I definetly don't want to abandon my beliefs just to be excepted by these people, can anyone help?

 

Live your life in such a way that you will be happy. If you live in such a way to satisfy others and gain their acceptance, you will not have lived your life. You will have lived theirs.

 

aaw i'm sorry.. you know, I just graduated a year ago... I never really fit in either, and it's hard to just be comfortable in your own space when you feel the need for true friends and a social belonging, you need to not sacrifice yourself for anyone, you simply ignore it, find that happy place and make your mind strong to where stupid nonsense won't bother you, remember everyone is made equal. they are NO BETTER than you, and you being different gives you ammo and an advantage. besides, who wants to follow the superficial scene their in. You'll be alright.

 

You stay true to yourself, and you will be surprised at the good people that will be attracted your way. Dont worry about the others.....just stick it out a little while, but take comfort in knowing that you know yourself - everything will fall into place after that.

ps...freshman year was not a kind year for me, either! But it did get better.....

 

i find a great way to break the ice and tell people that i'm a hippy and what the hippy philosophy is is to fart first, the louder and smellier the better. let me know how it goes.

 

hey im 16 and i dont know how to get people to listen to me. most of my friends and family think its cool that im a hippie and they love the way i dress but they think my beliefs are just crazy. everyone tells me im wrong, even in my religious beliefs. i guess you could say im a christian but i dont like to call myself that because its just another word for catagorizing people in a conformist society. i love marijuana and psychedelics and people tell me those things are bad but of course i believe what i believe and nothing can sway my opinion. but i just dont know how i can live my life happily and to what i believe without people criticizing me.

 

You know, You have to become so confident in yourself that you dont care what others think. Real friends will love you no matter what or who you are.

I wore my Tiedyes until I was probably fifty years old and I loved it because they set me apart from everyone else who had gone mainstream. I never lacked for friends. In the eighties I was often called Herb Tarlick because I dressed so outlandishly. I didnt care, mostly because it was my friends calling me that name. I frequented the same stores usually so even they got to know me and call me Herb and laugh and joke with me and talk about anything.

Today as an aging grampa I dress pretty conservative because I dont want to embarrass the grandkids, but my kids grew up with a wierd father and could care less. My eldest grand daughter and I are extremely close. She loves me to death as she puts it all the time. Funny, we are more like friends then grampa/grand daughter. She loves intoducing me to her friends and lets me in on her little secrets. At seventeen it is rare for a grandchild to be so close to grandpa. I tease her unmercifully and she loves it.LOL

You just need to decide who you are and be that person. What do you think the idea was in the sixtees? It was to be yourself, period, to not be just another one of the minions who follow the rules and do what is expected. It was to not be the status quo , which was bringing the planet to the edge of extinction.

It wasnt all roses and sunshine. We grew up diving for shelter everytime they tested the air raid sirens, hoping this wasnt the big bomb that would destroy us finally.

Growing up thinking that we were doomed to die one day in an atomic explosion finally got young people pizzed off and we rebelled against the system, a system that was going to kill us one day. We did not care how we looked because that would mean we were part of that system. We did not act in conventional ways for the same reason. Our parents accepted the status quo, never questioned Government actions.

Well, we questioned, we questioned a lot. We rebelled, we did things to show our displeasure with the system.

It is all well and good to think of those days as simply a fun frolic of flowers and free love, but they were not just that. That was simply a small part of the overall rebellion.

Today we need such young people again.Today the world is headed for that same dark place once more and only you youth can do much about it through your own actions to show your displeasure with the system of business and Government control of everything.

If you truely believe you are a new age hippy then never be ashamed of that. Be proud, stand tall and do your thing, period.

Friends, real friends will understand and who knows, maybe you could sway others in the process and help put an end to the present dangers facing our planet and people today.

And remember the peace sign. LOL

 

Well for starters I am going to preach. Why?? Because I have lived my life and lived anything you want to try already and know the results. You can listen or ignore as you wish.

I gave up drugs in nineteen eighty five. Why? Because friends were suddenly feeling the effects of years of doing it.

Smoking pot can make you go blind. In the eighties they didnt know why or how, just that pot smokers would suddenly be blind. Sometimes their sight returned in time, sometimes it returned in funny ways , like seeing just through certain areas, like spots, sometimes it never returned.

Smoking pot kills brain cells , like alcohol does, about a hundred and fifty thousand cells for every joint.

Eventually this has a bad effect on memory etc. I have memory problems today from it. Short term memory, meaning I go to the store and get there with no idea of why I went. People tell me something and five minutes later I forgot it. If I dont get it into long term memory then it is gone.


You dont need that crap in your future just for a little fun today.

As for the rest of your post, read my earlier post above.

Religion, well, my beliefs can be pretty offside in that area as well.People believe what they believe, period. If you really believe then dont feel shame about it. Others simply dont understand and that is their problem and loss.

 

Hooty,

With all due respect and no flame intended here brother, Cannabis has been proven not to kill brain cells but actually protect them like an anti oxident does. Believe it or not, there are reports from high respected researchers that cannabis may protect the human brain from alzheimers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4286435.stm

For my experience, I and my brothers and sisters have smoked just damn near for over 40 years and I can see.

In fact, Harvard University is calling for the legalization of LSD-25 again for psychiatric purposes as they have discovered that it does not actually damage chromosones and other brain damage as the US govt propaganda machine lied about in 1965. This report was released 8/13/2008. I truely believe that in 66(california) and 67( rest of USA) acid was made illegal because it let people think in a completely new and free way and differently that the govt wanted. That and the merry pranksters pissed off Ronald Regan at the time.


I am sure that there is a topic like this on the board if you'd like to discuss it there.

Peace

 

Great thread. I have nothing to add, just wanted to say that

 

Oh , I wont disagree because, like I said, any knowledge I have came in the eighties just after quitting drugs myself. Back then (it only seems like a couple years ago) they really were just learning and I expect many discoveries were pretty slanted to please the man.

I thought it was the new enlightened age but it was simply a decade of learning really. The eighties were great years for new discoveries in medicine.


Since the eighties I have had no interest in keeping up with the drug news. For obvious reasons. LOL

 

I hear you brother. I will stay with cannabis. It helps these old bones and muscles. I never tried X or any of the other new battery acid and drano drugs.

Peace.

 

ratdog, you are so funny! How true! I am fine, my kids are fine, I can see, no psych problems, no funny health issues. Living proof that I am a good smoked specimen....

 

I FEEL GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hat: