When did you realize you were a hippie?

There was only one sub-culture at my school and it was the hippies. So I hung out with them and fell into the scene, hit the Dead shows, made good friends and had good times but became disillusioned as time passed. How many people had stolen shit from folks at parties or at shows. How many people did I see judging others based on their clothes despite protesting the same judgment on themselves. I found so many hypocrites that I never really wanted to call myself a hippy. Even when I did the Greenpeace thing, I didn't like the term.

Now a decade and a few later, I'm returning to my roots. Babylon and bitterness sucked me up and I'm reclaiming my inner hippy. I know myself much better now than I did then. What I do now is for me and for the present and the future. I am not a hippy that looks to the 60's. I live in the now. I am not in it for the sub-culture or friends. It's what I've found about my ideals deep down inside. And since I've been (slowly) discovering love for myself - I find the label ' hippy' no longer bothers me at all.

I'm also a Nerdy Gamer Geek.

 

I guess it was when I about 12 or 13 the fact that I am and was different became even more proncuced. When I was a young teen and even now the whole bling-bling hip hop cluture of materialism and violience especially aganist women was becomming more and more popular and I knew I couldn't live like that. I also started mediating and learning about alternative lifestyles and listening to music like Janis and the Beatles, Ravi Shankiar etc........ Music has always been a big part of me realizing that Iam a hippy.

 

I'd not put myself as a hippie, personally.

I've grown up for the majority of my life in a kind of 'working class' background.
My grandfather was fairly large in WA/Australian Trade Union's, and we come from a fairly left-leaning family.

My mother is also a trade-union organiser for public servants and the alike,
My father is a social trainer, and worked with Intellectually Disabled people when i was growing up as a child,
As did a lot of other people in my family,

For the most part, they're all public servants, supporting Labor (like the Democrats in USA).

I got fairly interested in politics and what is 'right and wrong' from a young age,
I have my mothers family to thank for that.

I'm known as the uber leftie in my family, next to my grandfather of course!

Aside from politics though, i'm a regular partaker in psy-parties, which we call 'doofs' here.
(think parties in the bush, heavy on psychadelic artwork, psychedelic trance music, open atmosphere, people young and old)
I've been attending these with a mate since i was about 14, and the atmosphere and ethos helped mould who i am today =]

I'm also a bit of a radical young queer haha.

Politics, Music, Sexuality and Hormones = Me.

Those are all fairly synonymous with being a feral here, so there you go!


EDIT: Sorry about the length and the politics jargon!

 

I realized i was a hippy when i picked up this book called "hippie" and saw these pictures, man, and the music I'd already listened to was in there, the doors, beatles, janis joplin, the byrds, jefferson airplane. etc. then i read the ideas hippies developed and i was totally hooked. even though i was 11 i talked like i was smokin' somethin' man. i always did hate how others were such conformist slaves to the Man

 

It was 1966, and I experienced the divine consciousness of Brahma as the absolute, on Blue 0wsley acid

 

I sometimes used to wonder who i was and what i was here for but now i know my whole purpose in life is to love, live, and to help one another out; a little weed wouldn't hurt

i don't like labels so i don't call myself a hippie... some people see me as a hippie though. i get along with pretty much everyone and anyone i meet, i don't believe in violence or television, i belive in love & peace

 

I've always been a hippie, and I always will be.

I love you man.

Who are you again?

 

my mom was a hippie like chick in her days so when she had me i had hair to the groudn (literally) and beeds in my hair. i think thts what my parents always taught me, to care, to love, and to make peace with everyone possible, to stand up for your rights. so i developed that personality of peace loving people at a young age when high school came rolling around (the years where you really become something) i started likin rock n roll, meaning the doors, ac/dc, foghat, grateful dead.... and i started to really dig the music and lyrics. it let me escape for awhile. i always was wearin somethin brown cause i really liked it. well my hippie friend then he wastn came to me and told me he really dug the doors shirt i was wearing. and i just fell in love with the over shirt he was wearing and all the tie-dye things really interested me and i fell in love with the way they acted, they were such nice people and that was my crowd right there. Laid back hippies

 

when i realised in what kind of world i'm living in

 

I really don't know when I realized it.
The change must have happened over a period of time.
Not like I woke up one day and said
"Ok, I am a Hippie now. Yeah for me!"

 

Are you the guy in the comercial for Lotto with the try die and the the beard.

 

Just sorta happened...early adolescence, so not long ago 9 of ten people say to me every day I'm a hippie...yeah whatever, I guess, I've been with the philosophy for as long as I can remember, also thanks to my mom, she really tought me respect towards all living things and love towards everyone

 

i dont believe in labels but in that sense, i think i realised that i was when i was about 15...
i'd always grown up a little different.. like someone else said, i didnt like shopping and talking about hair and make up and everything... and my opinions were always a little different.. every1 else seemed to make a huge deal out of where they bought their clothes from and i refused to wear anything with a logo/brand name on it... and i loved op shopping. i hated most of todays music and was listening to the doors and the beatles and all that music but i just figured hey, thats me...
but when i was 15 my friend wanted to know how to make dream catchers so i was helping her look for stuff on the computer and found this site.. i started readin it and went, hey this is me.. i guess im a hippie then.. and yeah, here i am...

 

when i was 12 it was so weird at first but now im use to it

 

when all of my friends started calling me a hippie

 

Never! That's because I'm not one! Hooray!

 

okay. well, i realized i was hippy the day that i relized i love to wear Moccosins everywhere. i started wearing hand-made tie-dye bracelets, i became the absolute hacky sack master in virginia, i grew my hair out really long, and everybody started calling me a hippy.

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well when I was around 7 my dad liked The Beatles​

and I hadn't really listened to them, so for Christmas​

I bought him the Beatles #1 hits.​

-well about a week later...​

I stole it from him.​

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then I was always real rebellious in school..​

and everyone always commented it.​

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I'm very accepting of people​

and I love when people express themselves​

and hate when people down them for it.​

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The one day I read an article about hippies​

and I was like "whoa, I'm just like this"​

and I kinda found my place. [[=​

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life changing really,​

best thing that ever happend to me!​

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i dont know i guess i always throught diffrent frm other people

 

Well, it's simple, my parents HELPED me to realize it.

I've litterally been listening to jimi, the beatles the dead, the stones, all of them, since the craddle.
Been playing guitar since i was eight, drums since I was nine, piano and keyboard since I was ten, and bass for over seven years.
I've been writing originals since I was twelve.
I've been loving the progressing ideals of blissful harmony since I was at least four.
Started doping up hashing out and letting loose since I was essecntially a pre-teen.