When did you realize you were a hippie?

I was a child when I realized that hippies were great!
My parents were not really hippies but my aunt used to go around barefoot a lot in the summer and drove a cool psychedelic VW beetle .
She was so fun to be around, always upbeat and smiling.
I was so fascinated by her and want it to be like her.
Back in the mid 70's it was still easy to see real hippies hanging out in the streets and I loved their long hair, their bell bottoms and barefeet.

 

Senior year of High School

 

At some point when I was a freshman In high school I realized I was kind of different from all of the other kids. Even the ones who smoked weed. I smoked weed, but used it as a meditative/spiritual guide, though socially as well. The other kids woiuld say hit that made me cringe like "Dude lets go get fucked up!" and I would say to my self life isn't really about getting fucked up. That was probably when I realized I was probably not part of mainstream culture...

 

Well.. when I was a child my mother had two friends who were both hippies, and they all had horses that stood in a squatted hippie village that still exists today, and as a child I was brought there a lot. That village, named Ruigoord was a little more free back then, they gouverment tied it to more and more rules, anyway, all of that had a huge influence on me.
I didn't actually realise until possibly in 2004, young adolesence that'd be, but if it weren't for those memories I might've never felt drawn to it as much as I do now, so I voted since childhood. Those memories always ment a lot.

 

At a young age, about 15, i really started to project my very liberal views towards my family and friends, but i didnt really connect this to the "Hippy Element". By age 17 My hippy tendencies really started to come of age, this gave me great power to see things from a very liberal stand point and not tie any anathemas or stigmas to foreign ideas. I dubbed myself a "free thinker" and questioned everything, forming my own thoughts and opinions. By mixing in Marijuana, LSD, and DMT into my "self" in my later teen years, pretty much cemented myself to what most would call hippydom.
I really enjoy where I am and do not regret any decisions that i have made in relation to my use of psychedelics and free, liberal thought.

 

When people started calling me a hippie.

 

When I was ten. I started listening to the Beatles and digging the 60's culture. I discovered the music through films my dad was watching like Apollo 13 with Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and the Who on the soundtrack. The hippie clothes were making a bit of a comeback at the end of the 90's so it started from there. My parents were listening to the Floyd, Zeppelin and Genesis for as long as I can remember, so maybe it started earlier.

As I got older people found it more and more difficult to label me until "Hippie" eventually stuck

 

I've always been a "hippie". Even when I tried the whole goth scene, I was a hippie through and through.

 

i basically grew up with 2 friends... cousins. was about 10 or so, they were really into rap, so of course living with them and hanging out i got into rap... then some time later we got into metal... then i was really into korn and stuff... and i just looked towards my likings after that and just realized i didnt need to like what others liked just to try and fit in somewhere, then i got into the classic rock after listening to comfortably numb by floyd during one of my first smoke sessions... from floyd i got into the 60s/70s music. so around highschool time i guess...

 

ever since i was younger, ive always had that mentality of how everyone should be equal and how we should live off of the earth and give back to it. and than when i was 9 i was watching hair(prolly a bad example of hippies), and i just remember i loved the lifestyle. and now that im older, and i know more about politics and things going on the world. i want to make a difference, and end the wars and hate all around the world. its my generations turn to do what the hippies did in 60's and 70's.

 

I learned I was a hippie the day after I was born

 

Where's the poll-answer "I'm not a hippie." ?

 

Good, you have to click on the poll results to get the answer.

Peace

 

Ive allways been "not right" according to all the ?normal? people. never fit in and have allways been shunned for being alive. so i spent my life in the woods gettin high =) never felt happier.... well untill i found out there were ALOT more people like myself!

 

I started listening to the Beatles when I was 4...I still love them ^_^ that's also how I came to know what a hippy is...and realize that I am a hippy

 

My parents were hippies so I didn't stand a chance....not that I'm complaining mind you. I also started listening to the Beatles at a very young age, born a hippy, no doubt about it.

 

I've always been a bit of an anomaly... I finally realized I was a hippie - at 41 - when stringing beads and making medicinal tinctures from indigenous plants. The word "hippie" entered my own vocabulary, and everything started making sense.

 

all my life people have tried to cut me down to fit into their holes. (society?) i would not lable myself a hippie; i just don't fit. the one thing the controlers taught me, was to hate and fear authory. THERE IS NOTHING I HATE AND FEAR MORE THEN AUTHORTY! if i had been treated with kindness, dignity, honor, and respect becomming a human being, instead of being treated like a thing (tiolet paper to wipe their asses with)... i know things would be different today. kindness always gets far, far, more out of me then control and fear does. those who try to control me... burn their bridges with me, and build walls between myself and them!

 

We are treated as things because we use toiletpaper?

 

when I went to '04 Bonnaroo, ate an eigth of shrooms, rolled on Motorola, and danced on stage with SCI