The only hippie in school.

I'm probably the youngest one in the forum, being a high school sophmore.
Yes it's true; I didn't even exist back then when music was wonderful and when everyone had the dream of peace. I wish the dream was still popular now as much as the peace sign has become (it's like it doesn't mean anything anymore. It's become a trend.)

We have kids with their pants down to their butt, orange-skinned girls who talk on the phone all the time, quiet kids who talk about nothing but video games, homework, and computers, and kids who have all sorts of peircings and a new hair color every month.

Me? I'm different. I have a thermos of hot tea every morning, I wear moccasins, I make hemp jewelry, I play guitar, a teacher told me I smelled like patchouli yesterday, I'm a vegetarian, and I'm generally a nice person to everybody. Yup, I'm a hippie. The only one in the whole school. Most kids have called it "weird", "dumb", and "crazy." Me? I call it being myself.

Frankly, I like it. I like being different. "Weird" is actually a compliment. I would rather be "weird" than blend in and become a robot. I'm free. I'm uniquely and fearfully made. If anything, I'm happy to be alive.

And it makes me even happier to find a site who thinks like I do. It might defeat the purpose of being different, but it's so nice to know that there are people out there just like you.

Maybe I'm not so different after all.

 

ummmm, im the youngest damnit!... no llol, ive een a 12 yea old on heer lol

 

when I was in High School, I started growing my hair out, and doin the psycedelic thing, jammin on my sitar before class and everything, and I was the only one, then I came back 2 years later and that was like the trend, grow your hair out and dress in hippie clothes, even the girls where like decked out head to toe, with hippie skirts flower head bands toe rings fat hemp necklaces.. and Im thinking why couldnt it have been like this when I went to high school.. well I made friends with that group of kids, and honestly it made me look at the hippy looking people very critically, because some of those people were the worst liars and thieves, and violent too. Hippiedom doesnt work nowadays, it ends up being endless partying to classic rock on vinyl, which just gets the cops up on your pad.. They were like gangster hippies.. after that I honestly doubt there is anything redeemable about a new generation of hippies. Its kind of sad the day when you look at a person with dreads and a phatty hemp and wonder if you can trust them

 

Hippie is much more then being vegetarian and smell of patchoulli. Those things aren't even necessary (well I guess you could have guess that about the patchoulli part ). What about being openminded and respectful? Yet you judge people already about their pants and piercings, their hobbies, their quietness and their interest in computers. Yeah, things like people whoring with their phone all day annoys me too and I don't have much interest in people who seem to have nothing more to say than homework talk or things about the newest gadgets neither, but we're not all the same just like we weren't that in the heyday of the sixties and we'll never be. I'd say find the beauty in that or else you will probably only piss yourself off.

Most people on here weren't around in the sixties though. Music is still wonderful by the way and there wasn't such time when everyone dreamed of peace.

 

your going to find that when you and your classmates all grow up and graduate, some of the quiet normal computer kids will turn into the coolest people, some of the gangsters will be this, some of the girls will do that, everything changes. no one at that age can know who they are, because if that was the case you couldnt grow and blossom. hell i dont think anyone ever truely "knows" who or what they are, besides a member of this planet.


my point of advice is this, dont burn any bridges down this early... be nice to everyone even if they arent nice to you(until they disrespect, hurt, or steal from you, obviously), then when you run into them outside of school, you can possibly start a whole new relationship with them

highschool is a crazy place and everyone just wants to survive it, senior year was a great thing for me cause everyone in my class finally sorta chilled out and we all gelled together and made it a good year, i became friends with people i never would have expected

 

Yeah, you're right guys. I'm a cheerful person and I'm pretty open-minded about everything. More than most people.

 

Hopeless. COMPLETELY hopeless.

 

I was the only hippie in middle school and high school. Then people started to find it trendy yet again. Don't worry, just do your thing and be happy to be you... that's what being a hippie is about after all!

 

Yeah, nobody else on your highschool did their own thing and were happy to be them..

 

I know what you mean, i am one of the only hippies in my high school. people thought it was weird that i had long hair and a beard and that it was lame i wore jean jackets, hemp and sandals all year round. but now it seems to be a trend and everyone claims they are a hippy but only dress the part. people are crazy and times are strange...

 

I find it a bit hard to believe that you are the only hippie in your school.
Maybe you are labeling and judging people too fast, just because they don't act/look like a hippie is supposed to act/look, doesn't mean they can't be a hippie.
You know?

 

I've always just been me, I walk around in a tye dye shirt with a 60 some year old leather vest on, moccasins on my feet, and hair down to my mid back, I love wild flowers, the sun on my naked back, and the smell of fresh grass, I despise our government's current state of things, and I strive with all my heart to make it better. Thats who I am.

 

I didn't become a "hippy" until long after high school. A friend and I decided to travel all over America for a while, it was a lot of fun and we met some amazing people. Just keep doing what you do, and eventually someone cool will just pop into your life.

 

yeah man, i can't seem to find any like minded people in my school either (i'm in year 12) it's all about materialism, who you hang out with, if you're with the latest trends and ..hating on each other

at first i bloody hated it, i was angry at them. but now i'm just like, yeah.. they're doing what they think they should be doing.. maybe not what's best for them, or for our mother, but that's all they know. speak out to them man, dig it when you get called weird (as you already do ..very cool) they might not like what you have to say but, oh well because they might like what you have to say, and that.. that's beautiful.

stay true to you and keep loving.

 

oh and also, you never know what's going on in peoples heads.. some who you dont know may have the same values as you and you just don't know it, so keep looking around.. and be sure to alllwaaayss be yourself and then if someone feels a connection with you, you'll see you're not alone. there are treasures hiding everywhere!

 

I've enjoyed reading this thread! Last year I went to my 1st festival in more than 35 years and it was so great seeing so many young hippies. It was really a sweet thing and gave me joy. As an elder I would say to you, take care of yourself. There are predatory people out there and it is well to pay attention to your instincts and to your common sense. And if you see me at a fest, don't forget to say hello in there.

On the little table by my chair there are some pieces of wood, with beautiful swirling and twisting grain & texture, just like they were when I picked them up in New Mexico and Wyoming. In the Burmese betel nut canister next to the wood is (among other things) is a small bottle of patchouli oil. In honor of this thread I'm putting a drop of the oil on one of the pieces of wood.

Nameste

 

Hippie is a philosophy, not a look.

You can wear the hemp, forsake the meat and light all the incense you want. Does this make you a hippie? Physically, perhaps, but certainly not mentally.

 

Oh yeah! You play guitar and have a thermos of hot tea every morning! You smell of patchouli and wear clothes made out of hemp! You sure are a hippy!
And you're not a robot at all, because you don't blend in with the rest of the "robots"!

Grow up. No, really. This might sound stupid coming from somebody only a year older than you, but calling yourself a hippie and claiming that you "don't blend in" is trite, cliche and boring. There are thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people who look and act like you, and probably many more who are much deeper "into it" - not hippie-ism or some other passing fad or subculture, but the whole noosphere of humanity and life, and who don't look like hippies at all.

So... Stop being a hippie, and start being yourself. Cheers! :cheers2:

 

What I was trying to say in part was, it's easy enough to judge others - easy to find the differences (and I do it about as much as the next person), but maybe what we could look for is the places where we're the same and kind of build from there. You know, be a little kinder to one another.

It's a windy day today and the prayer flags are busy in the breeze.

 

i'm not sure what a hippy is or if i am one anymore. i know i used to believe myself to be a hippy but nowadays labels don't seem to stick to me very well. is there a comprehensive check list of hippy attributes i can consult in order to accertain my status?


PS. i think perhaps when younger youngsters proclaim their hippyness they're simply expressing their natural desire belong to an interesting and, in their opinion, cool grouping, a kind of tribal affiliation.