When did you realize you were a hippie?

When I was little I always used to wonder why people fought and didn't just be friends. I found I could be friends with everyone and could see the good side of people ever so easily. I loved natureand hated how people destroy it, and I really wanted to help make the world a better place. Erm I think it was around autumn this year (not that long ago) I realised my beliefs fit in with hippie beliefs. =3

 

coming from the mind of a 14 year old i have to say that was the best put statement i read of all. i don't like getting caught up in the label of hippie, to me hippie is a state of mind much like jade dragon is saying, our fathers and mothers started an awesome revolution back in the 60's, a revolution based on love joy peace and harmony man, and what great values to base a revolution on. so to be a hippy or not to be a hippy who really cares, it's the spirit and the message of love that matters and that is what needs to be focused on

love to all humankind

 

:bandana: I first realized that I was a neo-hippie in the middle of my freshman year in high school. It wasn't any huge spiritual experience; there was no stereotypical aspect to it like psychodelic music, ganja, ect. I just looked around at my peers, and realized that I wasn't like them. I never cared about, material objects, popularity, or competition. I never had an ipod, I never was nominated for an award, and I was never a star athilete. I care more about the enviornment, politics, and spirituality. That's when I realized that I was a neo-hippie.:rainbow:

 

i don't think having an ipod means anything...

 

I was talking to this kid about how the way that i really want to live, and i just kept rambling on, i guess cause i had so much to say. so he said "your such a hippie". i didnt understand at all, because back then the only time i heard about hippies was the whole media steriotype thing where its just some dude w/ a tiedyed shirt. so then i looked it up on wikipedia, and it seemed like i matched everything. i had the same outlook on life, had the same kind of lifestyle and i belived in the same things. so basically i was one all this time but didnt know it untill about a year ago.

 

I was talking to this kid about how the way that i really want to live, and i just kept rambling on, i guess cause i had so much to say. so he said "your such a hippie". i didnt understand at all, because back then the only time i heard about hippies was the whole media steriotype thing where its just some dude w/ a tiedyed shirt. so then i looked it up on wikipedia, and it seemed like i matched everything. i had the same outlook on life, had the same kind of lifestyle and i belived in the same things. so basically i was one all this time but didnt know it untill about a year ago.

 

oops sorry for the two posts. the clicker on my mouse can get stuck sometimes

 

Knew it since the day I was born

 

hmm Maybe when I first donated money to feed the poor

 

It's going slightly. I've been having the ideas of peace and love and respect for a long time, but I was never realy able to genuinly find myself. I feel different from most people, I mean I respect all of them but sometimes I don't have the feeling that they respect me. That's why I used to be an angry and frustrated person, looking down on people, but I recently learned that's not the way.

The only problem is that when I am who I am, I'm sometimes looked down upon too, wich makes me kinda insecure to be what I want to be.

 

I used to hug trees when I was five years old! My Mum used to take me to the park and one day I accidentally pulled some bark off a tree when I was climbing in it. Some sap came out with it...I thought I'd made the tree bleed so I hugged it to make it feel better! From that day onwards I was a little tree-hugger but I only really realised I was a hippy about a year ago.
Peace and love wished to one and all
xxx

 

i knew back in elementary school- my dad would constantly play classic rock, but led zeppelin really stood out to me. when i was odler, i slowly realized the grateful dead and bob dylan and of course JANIS JOPLIN were geniuses!
i knew pretty much my whole life that i was meant to be a hippie. in 6th grade i actually asked my dad if he'd hate me if i grew up to be one!LOL

 

After much consideration i dont think i want to call myself a hippie.
im a mix of ALOT of things. i do my own thing and go with the flow.
i might dress a bit like a hippie but not all the time. i look and get called a hobo some days.
yeah.

 

my mom thinks im obsessed with music. And I am, but she doesnt like it.
I realised it when i turned on my first beatles cd (i asked it for christmas) and i grabbed my new guitar(what i also wanted for christmas), went into the garden. sat on the ground.. and played lucy in the sky with diamonds after i heard it once or twice. Thankyou christmas, thankyou music, thankyou beatles Peace&Love

 

It was when the boys started coming home from The Nam. They all bought Harley Davidson's and introduced us girls to a lil pot, a lil acid, a few Ti sticks.

So we just naturally became Hippies.

 

we need to start a real revolution, love, peace, and music

 

We're hippies? I thought we were people! Omg, I was lost!

 

I agree!

 

I love Bob Marley, Jimmy Hendrix, Bob Dylan, pot once in a while, peace, saving the planet, being vegetarian, doing meditation, but I don't label myself anything. I'm just another person in the world trying to make things work as I walk along the journey of life.

 

Since I noticed I love music from the 60s and 70s such as Hendrix and The Doors, I don't like fighting or wars, I'm obsessed with vintage type things from the 60s and 70s (hippie clothes and items), I love tie dye, and I like the quotes and theories. I'm a bit of a poet myself.