1. I got to be this way because theres nothing I want more out of life than to just taste pure unattained freedom 2. My friends man, I couldnt ask for better, theyre right along for the ride and crazy ideas I come up with. Ive lost a number though but I also suppose that comes with moving and graduating high school. Whatever, I love my friends 3. Will it last? One could only hope but Ive accepted the possibility of all this just being a phase Shrug your losses and love the road
I really think it was myself that made myself a hippie. haha. I only have really one best friend, and I guess she slightly influenced me to be who I am today. We have been friends for eleven years so I'm pretty sure it'll last!
I've kind of avoided responding in this thread just because I prefer to keep quiet about myself, and don't like goin around openly saying I'm a hippie as I feel as if I'm using it to gain attention or some shit, I don't really know lol. Maybe it's because I don't want to feel like one of those people who go around wearing tie dye clothes and peace signs with no real meaning behind them (which I see as fine) but then call themselves 'hippies' on this basis. Although despite this, I see myself a 'hippie' and so does everyone around me, so I guess this is ok. But anyway... 1.I'm not too sure really. Possibly my Dad introducing me into reptiles and such a child, my interest in animals and nature has stemmed off into this much more expanded view and connection with the earth and all it's beautiful landscapes and features. Although I'v come to learn he is much more of a redneck now. The area I live in has definitely influenced my connection with nature as I live in such a beautiful place of the world, and can really appreciate this. I don't know where I get my personality from though, as I am a very quite, very calm, relaxed and happy person, whereas the rest of my family is high tensioned and easily strung 2. My friends treat me as me. This is how they met me, this is who they liked me for in the begining. If there were problems with how I am, they wouldn't have befriended me in the first place. Although as I'm now really starting to find who I am, my attitudes towards a few things have changed, disappeared or became stronger, but all my friends still treat me the same. The people I hang around with I wouldn't describe as 'hippies' but still quite alternate. Alternate in their own ways, not in these now 'alternate' ways which are now pretty much the mainstream lol. 3. Yeah I do. I am very passionate about a number of things that influence me to be seen as a hippie, and they are things I want to learn more about, experience and live as I get older.
Who really impacted your life to mold you into a hippy? ~my sister. she's 3 years younger than me and is a major hippy. she always has a smile on her face and lives so freely. she loves all and wouldn't hurt a fly. she's my inspiration. she also got me smoking pot, pot has also helped. lol How do your friends treat you, and who do you hang around with? ~i have to admit i dont have many friends but the ones i do chill with is cool about my lifestyle. they call me their hippy friend and i see it as an honor. Do you think it'll last? ~yes i know it will last because it's the happiest way to live. *peaces (by the way, I'm not a teen, I'm 24)
a friend of mine really opened my eyes to the "hippy" values i cant really generalize my friends im cool with everyone or at least i try to be they are pretty open minded to who i am though i do get the occasional hippy joke or tree hugger joke but its all in good fun so i dont mind i do think it will last i mean my friend opened my eyes up to the scene but it also has alot to do with who i am as a person and my values havent changed ive just look at things in a new light.
Who really impacted your life to mold you into a hippy? -I discovered the beatles (by watching across the universe, my favorite movie of all time which i later realized has references to my present idols - ken kesey & tim leary) which then led me to become immensely interested about anything having to do with the 1960s counterculture. And mind-expanding, man! Drugs have morphed me into a philosophical thinker, new perspectives and open-mindedness galore. Books like the electric kool-aid acid test have also impacted me in a huge way, as well as animal liberation which after reading, made me stop eating meat. Also my parents are overprotective and oppressive which led me to also be anti-authority as many hippies of the 60s were. I've always been a non-conformist, weird in the way that i act and dress, always wanting to present myself as different- to reflect how i feel inside. Being free and living my life so that endless possibilities are open at every moment and countless experiences can be attained while i am granted this life in the mortal world are also things that compelled me to become the person i am today. And really, who wouldn't want peace and good vibes for the human race? We're all in this together and i think hippies make the universal world a better place to be alive in. How do your friends treat you, and who do you hang around with? -All my friends either moved away or i saw them for their true selves: liars, and selfish people/ and people at my new school are only concerned with the latest gossip and the "cool" popular new bands, so i don't associate with any of them and their petty, insignificant dilemmas. Do you think it'll last? -Yes, until i awake to a different plane of existence- and even them it'll live on.
I agree 100%. I think people only say drugs are bad because they're either scared or ignorant of the Truth they bring.
I think a combination of things made it nearly impossible for me to NOT be one.. My household that i grew up in, both of my parents are hippies, I hang out with all of the stoners/hippies, but i think that it really hit me in the face when i read a book that really impacted me and i realized who i was. Again, I hang out with all the stoners and the hippies. Always have, they are the nicest people i know. They are super chill, they dont need to be doing something 24/7 and you can talk about deep things with them. If i say something weird, they dont call me retarted or say WTF, they nod as though they've thought the same thing before. I've always been most comfortable around them and they're all really cool. Love them. Plus, it's hard not to in this town. It's a small town, yes, but its 3/4 stoners, and 3/4 of those stoners are hippies c: I think that it will last, most definately. Its something i was born into and keep living through, and it will never escape me. Seeing it for so long, it would be unnatural for me to all of a sudden abandon my lifestyle. So yes, it will last.
DUDE SERIOUSLY?! I posted before i read this, and i swear to god that is the exact book that made me realize who i am!!! Damn, its a really deep book and hits you hard. That's pretty awesome XDD!!!
I totally dig what your saying its really hard to be a young person with hippie values. Alot of my friends do drugs and i think there not really doing them for the right reason they also have little to no respect for them and i just wish i could open up there eyes.So lately i find myself being kind of a loner because there arent many free thinkers in my school. Also i thing alot of people my age who do drugs say they are "hippies" and they dont get that doing drugs doest make you a hippie. And either does liking acid rock. I have this guy at my school who pretends to know all this stuff about timothy leary but has his facts all wrong and when you try and enlighten him on some really facts he just doesnt get it. Hahah but anyway i tottally get what your saying. Haha oh and like the mgmt.
Ive been giving the whole "will it last" thought a lot of time lately. The more I do and go about doing the more I realize the vast majority of people older, like our parent's age, have been through something a lot like what Im going through. At my, our, age I think we experience a time of enlightenment. Realizing how big the world is and all the possibilities it actually holds, all the good stuff. The drugs are a tool in this enlightenment but at some point I believe the lot of us will have enough and move onto the next phase in life. Might not always be a hippy but as long as I can maintain these lessons learned I say its been time well spent Hippy til death, in one form or another
For sure dude!! MGMT, i forgot to mention them, Andrew is a hippie and a free thinker, and i'm completely obsessed with him and his music- mgmt is like the epitome of my life! But yeah definitely, i'm a total loner but i mean, i like it better that way, im content reading a book about the sixties at lunch or daydreaming that i could have attended at the human be-in or woodstock rather than hanging out with a bunch of people agonizing over the irrelevant mortal problems they get so caught up with. I mean, they're all just missing out on life and living in the moment and just thinking about the BIGGER PICTURE of our whole existence! And it's too hard to try to enlighten people about the values of the 1960s because if your not turned on, you just won't get it. Like, if me right now was to try to tell my old self what i know now, i'd think i was completely crazy! Ahhh it sucks but hey, at least i know society hasn't gone to absolute crap cause of all the awesome people on here And yeah i get you about the whole drug thing. Most people do it for fun, like socially and it's like, they feel the need to fit in with their peers so much that they'll get all doped up for no significant personal reason. Blehh i don't like people that won't just be themselves and take the shit that comes their way when they aren't accepted. Because i mean really my life is already 1/4th over, and it could even end tomorrow.. why spend your life pretending to be something your not, we should all embrace ourselves for who we are since we really are one of a kind
Hahah yeaah mgmts like a musical high for me like my fav. Band of like all times. But yeah hp is a pretty great place to meet some free spirted people with open minds who look at life in a whole new way. And its just great to read about people around my age that arent just worrying about the latest fashion or what ever bullshit and who actually care about making a difference and the bigger picture it diffentaly gives me hope that there are still good people with good values out there and that we really can make a diffrence ya know?
Hmm... What if there were once a nerdy shy kid with glasses who had the coolest aunt and uncle who lived in a yurt in the desert and traveled a lot. Maybe they inspired him, helped see beyond the narrow horizons of his small town world. Then this same kid went into a used bookstore and found a copy of Whole Earth Catalog from 1970-something and read about people who were trying new ways of life, exploring exotic lands, some settling in the woods, some going naked and having the time of their lives frolicking in the woods, discovering books about ecology, renewable energy, about the future, different cultures and much more. This kid was soon not so nerdy, armed with a vision of a multitude of paths, new ideas, wild adventures. He doesn't claim to be a hippie, simply a kid now grown who will never forget the free spirits who showed him that he doesn't have to be a cog in some big wheel. Instead he can figure out what his talents and dreams are and how to harness all this to help craft a greener, lovelier, friendlier world.
