When did you realize you were a hippie?

it just kinda hit me one day, after months of everyone telling me to cut my hair and girls complaining my hair was longer than their's, all of my old band shirts and tie dye.

it just kinda hit me.

 

I remember reading articles about the "Back to the land movment" in Life and Look magazine,and watching all the trumoil of the 60's on the boob tube. I was born in 1962 so I was quite young, but still quite aware. I can remember reading the articles,(on the back to the land movement) and remember wandering why everyone didn't do it!

 

I wouldn't call myself a hippie because I do not truly identify with the hypocracy of the whole movement, but it is probebly the labelled way of life that is closest to me.

Ever since I was born I was always fascinated with the concepts of peace and the makings of our society. I always grew my hair long, no matter what, and when I had it cut I couldn't help but crying for some reason. I did not actually know what a "hippie" is until I was 15 or so. I just found myself drawing peace signs on things, questioning my parents about every act politicians made, walking barefoot as much as I can, loving nature, not hurting a soul, practicing in arts and crafts, and so on by the age of 6 or so. I grew up poor in St. Petersburg, Russia and then Israel. My parents were never there to raise me, so I came upon these concepts myself before they were ever introduced to me by anyone else. I still cannot explain it... it just came to me throughout my life.

 

i wasabout 5 when i saw some hippies hangin out at the park i remembered pointing em out to my parens who were like stay away from those people theyre dirty and on drugs and will steal from u
but i just remembered them as seeming so happy and carefree
i think id been a hippy from then on in some internal ways it was like brewing in me but i went through other stages to get where i am today..although i know i was always a hippy on the inside where it counts
but i guesswhen i went to my 1st gathering at 19 though was what really opened my eyes and made me realize who i was

or something like that

 

Hmmm....Well, I was sorta raised a hippie, then when I grew older, I was sorta searching for my Identity (Like every Teenager does). Then, I discovered about dreads. The Day before I got my dreads a big change in my life happend that Really changed everything, I did my first set and I kinda started started a life-metamorphis. I started trying new things, wearing new things, looking from new points of view and eventully I discovered I was really a hippie.

I have allways been political, But finding out I was a hippie changed everything, It gave me breathing space in my life for my liberal beliefs that I wouldn't have if I took the path everyone else had.

 

What if we all (most of us) are reinkarnated old hippies. That could be the answer to why we have the feeling of knowing things when we shouldn't. And the feeling of being born to late...

 

First of all I am really not hippie, but I like them very much, I like their way of thinking, and dressing.

In my country Lithuania till we there in Soviet Union, music like The Beatles and long hair was forbiden. My dad was like hippie, he had long hair and beard. Well he really looked like hippie. And many people were against him,just because of his long hair...Well maybe something like that were in other countries. But hippies in motherland was very important. They were a sign of freedom and independence. Listening to Beatles or hendrix meant that you are against Soviet Union. That's why I really like hippies, their hope of peace in the world, their sensibility for nature, being free. I now that I will never be as free as them, but I really honour people like Real Hippies.

 

oh sister...i think we are working on the same wavelength!!!!
I wouldnt call myself a hippie, but i have a somewhat obssesion with the 60s....i really feel like i was born too late. the older i get, the stronger that feeling becomes. i dont know....i feel like i have an old soul....ive also been told that before(eerie and cool at the same time) i like to think that i was a hippie in my last advent.....its like a damn umbilical cord to the past that i will not cut

Like in Deja Vu, CSN&Y's beautiful song:
"we have all been here before"
I really am starting to believe that

 

I was about 16. I wanted to fit into a social stereotype and feel belonged to something. I already had a rebelious side, and I always questioned authority; young and naive. Come 18, and after a long term relationship break-up, I realised that it wasn't me. I wasn't a peace-loving pacifist, and I was sick of being picked on for my appearence, so I cut my hair and changed my style to something I felt right in. I did a total U-turn.

These days I drink, and still indulge in drugs, but I'm much more of a hard-arse. If someone comments about me I don't take shit. I'm not a pacifist and I don't think I ever was. I'm consent with who I am now, and the picture in my sig. defines me as a person:

Drunk and carefree.

Come next year I hope to join the Army after teaching English in China; some of my hippie ideas still hang on (the need to help other people who arn't so fortunate as myself).

Irony has a name, and it's name is L.A.Matthews.

 

aready got that pig cut, next iz being one.

 

ive always been a free-spirited individual but never ever really thought of myself as a hippie even though i was raised byfucken hippies it just never registered. then around 6th grade people started calling me a fucken hippie and to this day i get that a LOT. i hella dont think of myself as anything really but i guess im the closest thing to a hippie this town has seen so thats what they call me. i still think im a bit too angry to be a hippie.

 

early adolescence. the last year or two, i've been calling myself a hippie. but when i look back at my childhood, i realize that i used to be really free-spirited and i think i've always been a hippie, but just recently realized it. i'm less free-spirited anymore. i wish i could get back to being an innocent, little kid again. i don't like growing up.

 

Hey...You're only 15!!!! you are still a kid.

I didnt like the idea of growing up, either. but I am discovering that it keeps getting better !!! I know who I am WAY more than I did 10 years ago, and I enjoy being in my skin...Im more self-assured, more responsible, and I still play like im 18....(it hurts more the next day, though)
You are only as old as you feel...ill be 18 for a while!
I heard this quote somewhere...cant remember who said it (Howard Hughs, maybe?)
" The only people who grow old were born old"

 

Yeah, you're only 15. You're still naive.

It was Robert E. Sherwood, Dolly.

 

i relized in my early teens i was a peaceful quiet kid and always tried to smooth things over in a fight and help people relize that peace and tranquility is so much better than hatred and chaos. i was a farely mellow person as well i just let things happen if they were to happen i really didny have a care for the normal teenage things. i would go and meditate in the cemetary a block away from my apt, sometimes i would fall asleep there at night. it was just so peaceful. of course i did smoke pot and experiment with drugs and alcohol who hasnt. i favored being barefoot over wearing sandals or shoes. i think that being a "hippy" is more of the person that you are rather than how you act and the material things.

 

Early adolescence for me, probably when I was 13 or 14. People not only began calling me a hippy but I began thinking deeply like one. I want an egalitarian society, I want equality, freeedom. I want change in this world. When I started thinking about those subjects and many more then I realized I am a hippy, that and my mom was a hippy too so a lot of her rubbed off on me honestly.

 

Realize or not... When I was 13 I thought the hippies I saw in a film i school were cool. I also had a pair of flower power jeans which I wore proudly
But I didn't realize I Was a hippie until a couple of years later.

 

i was always the peace maker but in my teen years was hardcore punk rock sportin the mohawk but still tryin to squash fights. my second tattoo was the dancing bears around my ankle; i discovered the Dead when i was 16. i took alot of shit for listening to that hippie shit. i was raised on Zeppelin, and Joplin, and the Doors, still love it. In my 20's i evolved into a full blown goth while still going to see the Dead. I finally just let all the angst go and got into shrooms, cid, & the herb and a lot of self discovery. It's been only in the last few years that people have started calling me a hippie. whatever. it's just another label. i've always been anti-establishment, pro-Earth, and all about LOVE.

 

i still dont think i'm a hippie yet. since ive seen theres more to it then just getting high and hugging people. but before i smoked i got into bob dylan and listened to a couple songs by hendrix and thought they were Great! compared to what i here now days(though bob dosent have the best voice i still like listening to him). then i realized i dont like to fight or violence that much. then i smoked some weed and definately didnt like fighting, now i just need knowledge i think?
ive also been into pink floyd since i was 5 but i dont think thats hippi. but its from the era when that movement started

 

when i was about 12 i painted a BAN VIVISECTION t-shirt and put posters of a dog being forced to smoke ciggys to test the affects all over my school. I think it was about then i realised i was off the hippy notion