I'm the most nostalgic person alive. HELP!

I didn't live in the sixties and I'm more nostalgic than most of them. Yikes! Watching the Woodstock movie gives me this ache in my heart and stomach that I can't quite describe. A throbbing feeling in my soul. Something is missing, an empty space that once was filled. Could it be fellowship? Love? Peace? Fire? I can't quite pt my finger on it. Please, true hippies. If you can, will you fill my heart with stories of the past, of the glory days, of Woodstock?

 

Dude, you don't need old hippies telling about the old days, that will just sink you deeper into nostolgia. Face it bro, you live now, not then. Focus on the past and you'll never be satisfied, because it can never be attained. You like what you saw back then? Go out and create it here and now. Love and Fellowship and Peace and Fire are timeless; they exist today as well as in 1967. Don't waste your energies on trying to be "back then" as it will never fill your soul. Those hippies back then would never have acheived anything (questionable as to whether they acheived anything, but that's another thread) if they'd just sat around talking about how good it had been in 1920s.

 

Yea, take what you have and go with it. Make it the best you can, dwelling on the past does shit except make you long about it more.

 

If you're heavily into the Woodstock Festival vibe I recommend you check out the very first rock,folk,pop festival:The Monterrey Pop Festival 16-18 June 1967.
In many ways Woodstock was a repeat of Monterrey.It seemed to contain the same performers.
D.A.Pennebaker made a superb film of Monterrey before he made the legendary Woodstock film.It's much harder to see the Monterrey rockumentary because it was never on general movie theatre release.
I know that if I could choose to go back & be at either Woodstock or Monterrey ;-I'd much prefer to be at the Monterrey festival.

 

The idea of a 15 year old pining over a boring rock festival that rained most of the time is fucking hilarious.........

You seem to have posted similar threads ine very section woodstock child.........stop trying so hard

 

Do your parents let you out of the house?

 

yeh cos um........thats doesnt have any releveance to what i said

 

You must have lived a VERY sheltered life to think Woodstock was "some boring rock festival".

 

1. It rained for most of the three days
2. The performers wouldnt play until they were paid, whic his rather hypocritical
3.90% of people had left by the time hendrix played,
4. A lot of the music there was shithouse, but some was ok
5. As a non LSD user, it personally would have been more boring cos the people would piss me of for being so boring and fucking annoying to be around.
6. The fact that shes fifteen is amusing because at 15 you are easily impressioned into what you think is cool or not. I was like that. Ive learn so much more about the world over the last 2 years and expect to learn a lot more.
7. And like I said was that, she had posted the same thread all over the forums like wanting to seem cool or like a "real hippie" or something.

Thats all I have to say and ive wated another 2 minutes of my life justifying myself to random people on the other side of the world

 

You've learned so much about the world in the last two years? That's pretty funny, man. Let her alone. You don't know where people stand in a spiritual sense of these things. For many, it was a great enlightenment. Who cares what she is trying to be? Atleast she is not afraid of it and is finding who she truly is.
I am still laughing at the mere thought of you "learning so much about the world in two years". You are not far from 15, man---you are both kids to me.

 

my boyfriend and i are the exact same. i love it/hate it

 

I love Woodstock. I can't help it. I'm not "trying to be" anyone other than myself. That's why I'm on hippy.com, not myspace. To me, Woodstock was a beautiful spiritual experience for many people and generations to come, and you need to respect our opinions.

If Woodstock was a quote "boring rock festival" then why are you on this website? Seriously.

 

You know you'll never convince lala, see where he's coming from?

All reasons come from #1 standpoint, me as opposed to us, whereas Woodstock was the biggest family reunion on earth.

How many fights, knifings, shootings, etc. happened at WS2, everybody who was there was there, but not together.

 

what made the 60s was that they were the exception to looking back. our parents and probably grandparants as well had spent their lives walking backwards, looking backwards. what made the 60s and 70s what they were, what they were able to be, what we did that was so different that made it all possible, was that for what was to most of us a concept that was totaly new, we were looking forward instead of looking back.

if you want what we had then, that is what it would take now.

not trying to relive some fantasy of how much better things couldhave been.

well alright we DID achieve something for that brief moment. there were downs as mentioned. there are always downs. but there were also people letting it all hang out and enjoying themselves without hurting each other. there was wavy gravy's granola, and while i wasn't myself personaly there, i did feel the love among the real hippies at the time that i did know.

i think for that moment, however fleeting, the gains did outweigh the downs more then 2 to 1. the real woodstock, i'm talking about, and the monteray thing considered a precursor to it.

but if you want to talk about real nostelgia, mine isn't about events or excitement, nor for that matter entirely about the past, but about perspectives and priorities that are in no way time bounded. about ways of doing things that are sustainable without becoming drudgery nor robbing clarity of thought and peacefulness either.

=^^=
.../\...

 

Here's another thouht> maybe you're reincarnated after dying in a horrible accident on the way home from the festival, yeah, everyone in the VW micrabus was elated over festival and hi over the weed and some dumb truckdriver ran over the bus and killed all and since this was your last memory from then, your obsessing over it now, it could happen!

 

Heh I've never thought of that

 

But just because I have recurring dreams about how I died last time. Didn't mean I wanted to be a broker again this time.

Hence maybe pleasant happenings before death might cause nostalgia........

 

I'm a bit late jumping into this thread, but I can't resist commenting...

I felt much the same at that age. At 15, it was 1976, and most people just wanted to forget the 60s. I hoped there would be another Woodstock in '79. In fact, in the summer of '79 I remember seriously considering just hitting the road, hitchhiking towards that part of New York. I still remember that it was raining and I was listening to Abbey Road. It really did bother me that there was not another Woodstock that year, or at least no big festival.

Now, at age 45, I'm GLAD I was just a kid in the '60s. I'm glad I missed it all. Honestly. Seeing what some people saw (e.g. San Francisco in 1966 for instance) would have given me false hope that would have been very hard to cope with later.

Some things really are better now. People don't trash campgrounds at festivals so much. People who are gay or bi or poly are much more accepted. There's less overt racism and sexism. The "hippie kids" I meet these days are for real, and mostly NOT doing it because it's "cool" or as a purely fashion thing, which I think was a HUGE factor in the 1960s. And these days there's much more "crossover" between alternative subcultures. The "generation gap" isn't gone, but man, it's NOTHING like it once was.

Nice post, I wish I had the whole world at my fingertips, via the Internet, when I was your age; I wish you the best.

 

I just have to jump in here and say " If you remember the sixties you weren't really THERE"! And also you must have forgotten about 'Altamount'
When the whole concert got trashed, and since then I've watched America become the "ME FIRST, and scr*w you, Nation"

Now, not being human I don't understand human emotions, but ya'll appear to be on a downward spiral, to destuction.....sorry ......just my humble opinion as an Orangutan forward Observer.