Hm I just always had that way of thinking.. and the music made me who I am. My friends call me a hippie all the time, it became normal. Some think I'm weird, some think I'm great. My two best friends listen to Good Charlotte and bands like that, I don't really have friends who have the same interests as I have. If this is me, it'll last forever.
Who really impacted your life to mold you into a hippy? Well, it was mainly pink floyd, Psychadelic art, and my genral view on the world How do your friends treat you, and who do you hang around with? LOL my friends dont care what i am, they like me for who i am Do you think it'll last? Hmm... maybe.
me too!!! i watched it before i started thinking of myself as a hippie (i think i was always a hippie). after that i started looking into it and...poof epiphany!
hello! there is no 'who' in particular.. i pretty much found a connection with nature and held onto the peace that i found within it.. my serenity - and people started calling me a 'hippie' .. i had no idea what that was.. so i researched; read books, read things on the internet, watched documentaries and fell.in.lurrrve.. mm, i'm part of a 'chosen family' - which is a bunch of like-minded, open-minded people.. a group of people i was introduced to while i spoke with this guy who went to my highschool, he noticed i was a bit wakky so he introduced me to this group which he was already part of.. we had some 'deep and meaningfuls' and i became part of this 'chosen family' - a very inspirational be-yourself family.. who they have impacted on me greatly.. so in that department, i'm very accepted. where as, with my friends at school and outside that chosen family.. they all see me as a bit 'weird' - though they don't really mind, they try to convince me to change my views.. which i dislike so much for a friend is someone "who lets you have total freedom to be yourself." most of my time isn't spent with those 'friends' anyways so, i don't worry about it.. and them trying to 'change' me.. isn't working.. so, ha! to them and.. do i think it'll last? hell yeah i do! it's my lifestyle.. and yeah, that's that! i hope many more people come to the spiritual realisations that i and others have so this world may have a better chance in surviving !
everyone knew i was diifferent when i was 4 and went around saying 'you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else' my mom asked who told me that i just said that i just knew crazy huh? well i just recently realized what they call people like me....hippie. i dont think im a hippie i just think im trying to be a good human. bob marley mold me him and john denver and bob dylan. will never stop doing what i love to do which is being a 'hippie' and my friends accept me now but at first they kinda made fun of me but now there used to it.
my old friend colin kind of started my process of redefenining myself. it was my freshman year of high school and we would hang out in the woods all the time. then we started smoking weed and hangin in the woods. then we started asking questions like why isnt weed legal. then that kind of sparked my curiousity and i started looking into all sorts of government conspiracies. also all this smoking weed and observing nature really made me fall in love with the world. i had always loved native americans and thier ways. i started reading a lot about them and nature in general. I have come to realize that money and careers are a modern day invention. to me, they are unnecessary and distract me from my reason for existence. i cannot damper my adventurous spirit by awaiting a secure future with a full time career a big house and lots of money. no, i want to live deliberately. i want a direct role in all the basic essentials to life. i want to travel around and experience a new horizon every day. i want that ultimate freedom. and YES i know it will last. i know these feelings are genuine and i could never abandon them in a million years. no amount of growing up or knowledge could make me believe otherwise. I figure when im much older, i will begin to settle down in a more permanant place, and live a little more comfortably. i hang with a pretty typical bunch. most of my friends possess hippy qualities, some of which probably rubbed off me. but none of my friends are full fledged hippies. they still go with the flow and conform to the masses. i love all my friends though, we have a good time. i dont mean to sound egotistical or anything but i feel that im respected around my school. i never ever get shit from anyone. im frequently called the only 'real' hippy of our school. in a way i like it, but i like to be around more of my type. people that i have a lot in common. oh and especially some pretty dreadlocked girl
The Monkees have been my favourite band since I was 9 years old haha. I think that's what really started it. In grade 9 people were really awful to me so by grade 11, I gave in and changed my entire style to lots of black and skulls like everyone else I knew. It took quite some time before I realized how untrue to myself I was being. I am back to my normal self again, I have a boyfriend who loves me and accepts me for who I am. I don't really have any friends of my own. I hang out with his. But i'm enjoying my life so much more than I used to.
haha well well my first fave bankd was stysx, then my mom (yes my mom, love her to death) introduced me to other bands then the inner hippie just sort of came to me after floyd and the doors. then at age 14 i really started feeling more happy and peaceful. well anyway happy 2009 everyone!!!!!!!!
My uncle really impacted me, hes great. My friends treat me fine, just normal. :] This will never pass, this is the way I am. <3
My mom and my uncle really influenced me mostly. My friends are great people. Yes it will last. eace:
I think it was mainly the librarian at my old school, but the music helped too My best friend is hippie. I hope it lasts.
1) i hink the music impacted me.. i really get it and understand it 2)i dont really hang out with alot of people much anymore... usually if im a friend with someone its for life. but i have a few very good freinds 3)i think that it will be forever
1)It was definitely my dad who impacted me. He grew up in the 60's though sadly not in San Francisco (or even America!) He really connected with the music and the message and became a fulltime musician and hippie. I grew up in a house of freedom, peace and love while listening to Jimi, John and all the rest. And I always thought everyone was like us and couldn't understand why people thought my family is weird. However it was only recently that I really embraced my hippieness and found my place in the world and I'm happier then I've ever been before. 2) I'm friendly towards everyone but if someone is judgemental towards me, I don't waste my time trying to be friends with them. My closest friends however totally accept me ven though they're definitely not hippies. But sometimes they give me grief about being a vegetarian... 3) OF COURSE! I think that if you're atrue hippie you cant really just let go of it or "grow out of the phase". Being a hippie is for life, because youre not being who anyone else wants you to be...you're being you. I'm so glad to see that there is still hope in the world, all of you should never change!!! Peace and love to all
I'm not really a teenager anymore. But I started to play with the lifestyle when I was around the age of 12. I always had a very earthly/mystical side to me. One that I still wish I could concentrate on and expand. I made the decision to start dressing hippie when I was in 6th or 7th grade. It was more of an experiment and then it formed into a lifestyle. Since then I've changed my appearance multiple times. I'm always exploring subcultures and groups. Recently I've found myself pulling out the old broomstick skirts and dashikis, the happy hippie love beads and all the above. While my personality has also undergone growth and change, I never lost my hippie heart.
1. totally my cousin Erica. she used to work at this hippie/pagan store when i was like 10 and i loved her and wanted to be just like her. now i am =] 2. my friends are chill. some are a lot like me and others are not. i'm in drama club so atleast most of the people i hang with are artsy and thats pretty close to being a hippie. 3. its totally a lifestyle. its all beliefs and views and the way they manifest through your clothes and actions and things, you know?
I was bullied at kindergarden and school for about ten years. I was the skinny, small guy, that anybody could punch in the face or pick on without fearing to be hit back. At the age of about 15 I got into punk music. Got myself a mohawk and a leather jacket. Punk lead me to anarchism, thanks to which I got into researching different ideas through the internet. Eventually I became a nice kind of person who is into philosophy, politics and religions. My punk side changed into something hippie-like. I don't really like to label myself a hippie, but I quess that's what I basically am. So the most important things and people, who influenced me into being what I am now are Internet, all the musicians from the Punk and 60s/70s era, some of my friends and alot of thinkers like Noam Chomsky, John Zerzan, Timothy Leary, Terence Mckenna etc. Especially Mckenna. I think I have listened to more than 48 hours of his lectures . And I suppose the herb has influenced me too. I think it actually gave me the jumpstart, because I started changing the most just after I had started smoking. Might have been puberty though. My friends are mostly party animals, which I am not much into anymore, but they are all great people. Some have Hippie-esque ideas and I think I have influenced a few too. I will change, but I don't think I will ever really become a "respective member of the society". I know too much .
i don't consider myself a full hippie, but other people do. all and all my mom was a hippie in the 60s and it interested me a lot through out my life ... probably jimi hendrix, bob dylan influenced my attitude a lot though. my friends don't mind, sometimes they get mad at my sass but i'd rather have more friends that dig the stuffi do
In high school i was a full blown hippy, but now im more integrated, i'll were stuff like my universities sweat shirt and i don't have really long hair anymore. but all the hippy values, like peace and love, or communal living, were you grow your own food, and of course the mind expanding, all seemed like common sense to me.
