I'm not really a hippie per-say. I just really love the stuff I heard about it. I also hold a lot of their ideals. Like everyone should be equal and people should be able to just have fun and live in peace and stuff like that. But in this day and age I guess I'm just a dreamer.
The whole thing with dreams are that they push us to achieve them. If dreams were easy to reach they would not have much value or challenge. So at a young age you have discovered part of your life's work. Good for you to see that, now you can start working toward your goal. Some folks never find a value or dream to work for.
1. John Lennon ^_^ 2. They always try to tell me I'm a hippy but I don't care what they think. So after they started treating me like an alien, I hang out with my dad's friends who are also hippies. lol 3. It'll last forever :daisy:
1) You know.. Its hard to say. I had always been different, felt no need to conform. Always questioned the status quo, even if i wasnt against something, i would still question "Why are things this way?". When i was 16 i tried LSD, and i think that was the start of it. But after going backpacking this last summer, and meeting a spiritual teacher, i feel like im now very well rounded, and have found where i want to be.. At least for the time being 2) I had a bunch of hippie buds. My best friend through high school was somewhat of a hippie (Though, we havent talked in months and months). And i was in a psychedelic-folkrock band with some friends for about a year, but we went our seperate ways by the end of it, i think im the only one who retained the hip mentality. The Keyboard player went into rehab for drug abuse, the guitarist/singer became an alcoholic, the drummer went to school, and i went backpacking. We all follow different paths, and that seems to be the case. So, right now i don't hang out with a hippie crowd, but there all great people! ..I get called a hippie all the time, but i hardly ever see myself like that anymore.. im just me! You know.. i dont like labels 3) Yeah, for sure. Its in my blood.
Some person said that the music changed them, and i believe it can somewhat but being a hippie is much more than just get getting high all the time and dressing like one. I have slowly been trying to find who i am step by step day by day and over those years of changing I found my true iner me. I just didnt turn to one overnight, but what made me want to live this kind of life style is the freedom,love,& peace that comes amongst it. Since I have been like this I am more kind,gentle,and understanding. If someone was to ask me to change I would never cause this is who i am now and forever hippy I will be. :sunny:
Um, I know way too many nudist hippies for dressing like a hippie to be necessary proof that you are a hippie. And will taking drugs make you a hippie? No way! Drugs have been used to help straight-laced people break out of mind prison, but not everyone needs that and there are non-chemical ways to escape mind-control of THE AUTHORITIES.
1. It was a combination of things I think. It started with leaving Christianity and having a lot of bitterness left over from that. I eventually found Druidism, and something just clicked. Nature spirituality made so much more sense to me. My Uncle also has challenged me to think hard and not take the easy answers. And then there were some people in my local community that I met, like my best friend's mother who is a hippie lives in a sustainable fashion. And now I can't help it - it's who I am! :sunny: 2. I hang around with normal teenagers, normal people, and they are all really cool with how I am - as a pagan, and a hippie. Only very rarely do I receive any snide comments about those things. 3. I do believe it will last. Why? Because the alternative is becoming burnt out on life, and only chasing material things - and my family has seen too much of that for me to ever go that way.
I've just started becoming a "hippie" I guess. But I wasn't exactly influenced. I Just had a great realization about life. About people and the ways in which individuals treat eachother, animals, and this world. After That I decided to he vegetarian, be more peaceful, help others, make the world better, etc etc. My friends haven't exactly noticed But there are a few people Who call me a hippie already and i don't mind. One of my good friends, Alyssa, calls me flowerchild and she thinks its cute how I ho about my business in a "hippie-like" way. Will it last? I totally don't know.. but I'm loving this ride and I'm not in a big hurry to change so I think ill stick with it
Great thread *It was not a person, actually. Maybe myself, I guess. It was really my pacifism and compassion for lots of things and people, along with my love for nature. The more I uncovered my true self, the more the "hippie" beliefs and mindsets manifested themselves in my day to day life. *I hang around friends I have known for a long time. They think my views are strange sometimes but opposing viewpoints don't ever end our friendship. I'm trying to make more open minded, hippie type friends. *Yes. "I am that I am" Peace x
I'd say my mother had a big impact, also psychedelic chemicals. The world is what, I would say, has made me a hippie for the most part. The world needs hippies, so I become one. The world needs love and compassion so I give it. :]
1. My grandmother- & pretty much everyone I grew up around when I was with her. Also The Beatles because I grew up to their music & John Lennon. 2. I hang out with everyone that accepts me for who I am... I was not put on this Earth to judge anyone for what they are on the outside, but to love them for who they are within. 3.Once a flower child, always a flower child. It will never change.
My best friend from when i was six years old was the first person that introduced me to the lifestyle, although you could say that it was a culmination of everything in my life, from the music i grew up around, and the awesome parents who were always very open minded. I took my political views and moral standards from my parents, and then when my good friend introduced me to cannabis and psychedelics, and I have never looked back. The way those psychoactives made me thank changed me for the good, It's as if i see through the bullshit illusion that our society is trying to wrap us in. So i lost 105 pounds (and not junkie style) I grew my hair long and ive never looked back, and I couldnt see my life going in any different direction than what it is. Then I discovered festivals, and around here a festival is just a bunch of good people (usually hippy-ish) taking beautiful trips together, watching music, and camping. Pretty much learning about life and nature in general, while still having a good time. I would never trade this lifestyle for the world. I'm not bothering anyone and no one bothers me...perfect.
Who really impacted your life to mold you into a hippy? Probably Jimi Hendrix, I first heard him when I was really young. My grandmothers too who grew up in the '60s. How do your friends treat you, and who do you hang around with? Like shit, they don't understand me. I hang around with wannabe gangstas who rob houses, I keep out of it just anticipating my move to Canada. Do you think it'll last? Definitley.
I discovered 60's music when I discovered The Beatles the second half of my freshman year. Then it grew to Pink Floyd. Eventually I came across learning about Syd Barrett and then the psychedelic rock genre. When I first heard "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", I knew that's the direction I wanted to head towards. I listened to that album once or twice every day my sophomore year. So obsessed! haha I still wasn't comfortable at the time with the notion that certain substances were "illegal" and all that. And while I was coming around to learning about psychedelics online, I didn't come around to accepting the herb until nearly two years later perhaps. False understandings still ingrained in my mind then, unfortunately. And this past year I was finally able to get to have experiences. I'm nearly 19 now. I've been drawn to the psychedelic culture for what feels like forever now, but I don't know when exactly I started identifying myself as an actual hippie. Maybe around the past several months actually. (I know, I've been on this forum much longer.) My last trip has definitely really changed me and brought me closer to the truth. I used to be in a really depressive state before that. I still struggle with things because of where I live, but I've felt much different since then. I know to stick with the good vibes, and to keep on truckin'. I want to offer the most positive energy towards everyone I know and meet, and I feel I'm really onto something. The people I hang out with aren't hippies, but they're "drug-friendly" and nice enough, and I'm always bringing different music they find themselves liking. I'm incredibly passionate about music. I dig a wide variety. Really been inspired by Hendrix lately and what he stood for. My closest friend of the bunch would call himself more like a radical Libertarian, but he does dig hippie stuff when I share it and we've got lots of common ground. I've known him the longest of any friend in my life. The other group of friends I hang out with are Christians so I can better my spiritual life, and because I simply enjoy them as friends. Some know I like to expand my mind, but they're either neutral, curious what I have to say, and/or disagree but we don't talk about it. Some I haven't told yet. But I wouldn't hang with them if they were going to judge me for it. I know the truth about these substances. Oh, it'll definitely last. This isn't a "fad" or a "phase" or anything. It's the path towards the meaning of life! Any hippies in Illinois around my age? Come on, let's meet up! I still get lonely a lot, and I'd LOVE to meet like minds!
Are there any hippie teens around?? I feel like the only one... and I would just like to know weather or not I'm all alone... One love!! eace:
15 is a teenager 13-18 is a teenager that means that 15, 16, 17 and 18 year olds could be considered teen hippies
