When did you realize you were a hippie?

My dad has a westfalia and everybody was saying to me : this is an hippy van i hate hippies ... i became interested in them , my disdain for materialism . I also started listening to the eagles and the beatles . and there is also this site hippy.com on wich i arrived by accident ...

 

I don't like this thread.
I also don't like the whole stereotype thing (ex. "Like to smoke pot"). It's so annoying, why do people have to classify one another? I am always called a hippie and I can handle that, but I can't handle when people attach all those sterotypes to the word and automatically judge me etc.

 

im not a fan of catetorizing and shit, but i'd say i became MYSELF (or as you guys say it, a hippie) around... 12 or so. i never liked makeup and shopping and all that bullshit.. and i went to a ziggy marley concert.. and then a (i believe) phish concert, and i never looked back.

 

I strongly agree with you skankleft, but I didn't put this thread to see how would people react about being classified. because, i think 'hippies' are just 'unclassified' people who don't fit in society and just hang out together like in the 60's or just don't.

I don’t know if I’m right…. you have to feel like 'classified' ,or in better words, you have to feel identified with those people called 'hippies' because you are in this forum. don't you?

So I put this thread for those people who have this way of life and wanted to share with others when they realized they 'became' or when they were different to others in the way of believes and living their lives.

It's true, many people are here in this forums because they smoke pot, or haven't got better things to do or whatever. I don't want to judge anybody, I don't know you and I know what it is to be unfairly judged, that’s why I put so many options for you to choose from, so anybody could be identified with the question and vote. Thanks

 

alot of people have been bagging this thread and thats cool but personally i think its a great thread cos it made me remember all those moons ago when i had no idea who i was or who i wanted to be... i still have little knowledge on who i am but i at least know that i have been pushed in the right direction! i was looking for something... maybe an identity... maybe happiness... maybe freedom from societies harsh rules eg, get ur hair cut, pay lots of money for clothes, have millions of 'friends' when we all know its just a popularity contest! so i was searching and luckily, with perfect timing, i met the most amazing, most beautiful soul in the world and she taught me all about my soul and life and acceptance (or even tolerance) and we had the best friendship cos we helped eachother to grow and we grew with each other. it was and prolly still is the best thing to happen in my life.... i love her for all she s done for me! thank u isabelle!

 

Thats the world we live in man. It does suck but it is what it is. Dont worry about it. Do you know that you have your own identity? thats all that matters. Im called a hippy too. I think its dumb. Who cares tho?

 

im kind of on the same page as some of you. My dad and his friend whose daughter is my best friend were hippies. they lived in the 60's and 70's and listened to the dead and janis, hendirx, zepplin, beatles, i only like them because thats all i heard when i was little and now i connect with it more. I undertand what some of the things they are saying now. yea i like newer music that i go into myself but i guess you could call me a hippie, i dont care. I really noticed though, that who i was for my whole life had a name, "hippie" and so thats just what i thought i was and what i am. I was just being myself and who i am has a name. it surprised me actually. haha

 

i was like 10 and i realized i could listen to the Beatles and Bob Marley straight for hours and it would mellow me so much i wouldnt notice the time. also when i was 12 walking down the street and a police officer rolled down the window yelled "damn hippie" and drove away. theres no real "passage" into being a hippie or whatever your just feelin it or your not.

 

you know when your a hippie when people call you a hippie for just being yourself haha (sometimes...)

 

Yeah, I agree with you.
I know the labeling is pretty much true in my case but that doesn't mean I like it. I'll admit, I'm what many people would call a hippie, but that doesn't mean I enjoy the label. Whatever though, I can live with it. It really pisses me off though when I walk into a store that's not exactly "my style" and I get looks like "what is she doing in here?". It is my choice though to put myself in those situations and dress the way I do etc. But it's sad that people are so quick to label and judge.

 

No labels, you are what you are, when you act under a label you are confined by it's rules, don't tell me who I am, not even I would do that

 

I never really realized it til late in life... i always listened to a bit of everything... was a dead fan almost my whole life.... was a loner in school and didnt really hang out with anyone.. after highschool people started to tell me stuff like "you act like a hippie" or "you're a hippie" and such.... and after awhile of people always telling me this i realized how true it was...

 

When I ran out of pot and money- and all seemed hopeless, when suddenly I found the words just came to me, "Hey, can ya help out a brother?" That's when I became, a hippie.

Seriously, "back in the day", when I looked like a hippie, we just called ourselve freaks. Older people called us "those damn hippies". In '72, in Jr high I was a very active enviromentalist and anti Viet Nam War. I never really thought of myself as a hippie, even though through the 80's and 90's I had nearly ALL the symptoms.
Not till I found this site a few years ago, did I actually call myself a "hippie". I think that's perhaps true for most of us older "hippies" but not all.

 

Remember that show "The Wonder Years"??? I know this sounds crazy....but when I was really little I watched it a lot and thought Kevin's older sister (who was a hippie) was the coolest, most beautiful, smartest, coolest person ever, lol. I wanted to be just like her....I didn't really know she was a hippie then, I just thought she seemed so smart and independent for some reason and I liked her clothes and attitude.

 

YOU'RE ONLY 23! Late in life? I'm pushin' 50, and I sometimes say things like, I got a late start (refering to getting married and having kids, and buying a house) but I'm not close to using the term "late in life!"

P.S. Just fuckin' with ya. Peace

 

** lol... yeah, I get what you mean, but you make it sound like an illness!

 

i realized i was a hippy when i was a teenager. i'm 34 now, i'm all about anything herbal, i love classic rock, i'm all about love and peace

 

childhood, when I was real little I liked to wear my moms "love beads" and they would call me their little flower child, and when I got older I borrowed all my moms REAL 60's clothes, I loved it!!!!

 

lol... yea... i always use the term "old man" too... or like i'll be talkin to some kid thats like 17 and i'll be like "well back in the day when i was your age..." or be like "damn i went on this long ass walk yesterday and im all sore.. damn im an old man"... i'll be saying it til im dead

 

I relized it when i was 12. I Was sitting in a tree (because i was relly bord) and someone was said "go get the hippie", and i was relly confused ( I was not the smartest person) so i looked it up and i found out i really was a hippie. Though i hate when people stero type us as drug users, not all of us do drugs