How and When Did You Know You Were a Hippie?

I'm kind of confused about myself right now. I'm kind of a cross between goth and hippie according to my friends. I try to live out the idea of peace and love everyday, and it feels right, like I should be doing it. I'm not sure whether or not to declare myself a hippie, though. I'm all love and peace, but I kind of have that darker goth side too. I just love gothic music and literature and bands like Disturbed, but is it really a bad thing to like that stuff? I've been into the gothic subculture for a few years, but I've been into the hippie way of life too. I'm just kind of confused about myself right now, I guess. I want to be able to call myself something, but I just don't know what's appropriate for me.

Anyone care to tell how and when you knew you were a hippie?

 

For me like. Well I really don't like to label myself as anything and if someone calls me a hippe I'm not gonna say shut up man don't call me that. But if I was describing myself to someone I wouldn't say I'm a Hippie. So I may follow the Hippie philosophy and the Hippie dream and I may dress somewhat in accordance to the steryotypical Hippie look but I don't really openly refer to myself as a Hippie. I dunno why, I just feel weird doing it. If someone says are you a Hippie I'll say I'm a freak, I'm just doing my own thing.

I guess that really dosen't help you, so sorry, but thats jsut how I look at things.

 

Two stories can summarize my hippidom:

1)

A man was walking and walking, he got tired, so he started running.

2)

A man was walking, he fell into a hole, got a ladder, and got out.


Such enlightenment! Even Dali couldn't shit something like this out with a paintbrush, a mustache, and a gay lover full of tears!

 

ok in case you are a goth. you won't be offended, by small amounts of goth-bashing will you?

I dont think goths stand for anything. I respect them for think differently then society wants them to, but they don't really have a central meaning. Unless their meaning is wearing alot of Black. Hippies stand for peace and love, I guess Goths stand for Non-Conformism which is awesome, but their not sticking it to the establisment for a reason. Their just randomly being different. Being different for differents sake. Now I have loads more respect for them, than some brainwashed sporto who walks around high-school like he owns the place, only caring what girls will sleep with him, instead of the horrible things in the world. Goths realize this stuff. You know animal cruelty, war, and unfair politicians, but they don't act. When's the last time you heard of an EMO peace rally. IN the 60's, the hey-dey of Hippie, Flower Power was a revolution. Emo is just a group of people who beleive in the right stuff, but aren't actually doing anything about. I hate the stereotype that all Goths are demon-worshippers, their actually very compassionate people, but Hippies stand up for what they beleive in, by clothes and by everything else imaginible. Emo's only big "Fuck you" to the establishment is wearing black clothes and alot of mascara.

Now about your direct question. "When did you know you were a hippie". My answer to this wouldn't help you. I was the kid in a baseball jersey who made fun of people who were different then me, just because That's what the people on TV did. I evolved form that to a difference-loving, peaceful, vegetarian Hippie. Now you're stuck between Hippie and something much closer to Hippie then I was, so my advice of why I became a hippie would be much different than the advice of someone who used to be a goth. Not to say a goth is as bad as a brainwashed kid. Goths, aside form hippies are the people I can respect most in this society

Peace, Love, and all the best,
Mike

P.S. don't be a hippie just cuz of what I said. It's your decision just take my points into account

 

I remember the first time I heard my dad say I was free spirited. it was in a beach in New Jersey and he started explaining to me what being free spirited meant. I've always had a lot of sensibility and patience and really this is how I found out and became a hippie. My father told me he was one too and i guess this is where i take it from. I share a love for music and playing guitar and cello and writing along with meditating and a love for peace and animals. I live free without any boundaries. Love is all you need.

 

i grew up with super christain parents and i do believe in jesus, but groming up i couldent express myself i always was attacted to the music and art and style, when i was about 18{ finally free from parents} i found the beatles and slowly but surely started becoming hippy but i didnt know it then one day i realized what i was what i believed what i wanted, and that was it then i had acid and i saw everything clearly and that was it, but i dont like to be called hippy either u know dont hang a sign on me, people get an idea what hippys r my frends call me that i prefer member of the counter culture or one of the beautiful people but mainly just tim, im me not hippy or any other name.

 

ive always been the same way..ive always had a kind heart and very open to everyone.

 

i think that you can still like goth music, and that darker stuff and still be a hippie (i think so, anyway - others might object)
i listen to that kinda music too, and i love movies where everyone gets cut up lol, but that doesnt affect what i believe is right. The things i believe in are love and peace, the goodness in humans, that'll never change no matter what i decide to read or sing along to

but why is it so important for you to name urself something? only a couple of my friends see me as a hippie. The rest just see me as an individual...or a weirdo and im fine with all those lol. Mainly because a lot of my friends dont really know me, the people on here might even know more about my beliefs, and nature than kids from school. I dont get the oppurtunity to talk ther like i talk on here.

but like i said, you can listen to that kind of music if you want! its not a bad thing, unless you start thinking dark gothic thoughts, instead of peace and love lol
then thats a different story

hope that helped

peace and love
Jane

 

I understand what you mean. I wont consider myself a hippie. I'm actually a crust punk (if you dont know what it means, please research on it) but a lot of my beliefs are in common with Hippie beliefs too. I believe in anti-war, anti-racism, anti-homophobia, peace and love, but I also believe in Anarchy and Equality too (Anarchy is not chaos and disorder. Please educate on the subject matter before you take into account on what other people tell you, because I can tell you that Anarchy is not violence at all. I can tell you that it is living with each other under no government. The people are in control of their own lives rather than a political figure going above your heads telling you what you can do and what you cant do).

I mean I dont listen to Jam Bands, but I listen to a variety of music such as Psychedelic Rock, Metal, Hardcore, Punk, Grindcore, Goa Trance, Hardstyle, etc. You dont have to label yourself as a hippie to be one, but as long as you are willing to respect the culture, you are welcomed in it.

 

exactly ^^^ leftovercrack said it well lol

 

I found I was a Hippie about 2 years ago, I was 14. I'd always loved hippie clothes, and so I started looking up stuff about hippies, and my eyes, quite literally, opened wider! I've had many struggles in my hippieness, ie not being allowed to get my nose pierced, getting alughed at because of teh clothes i wear, and putting boys off, but hey, I love being a hippie, and tehy are not going to get me down. My advice to you is don't label yourself, if people ask what you are, say you are you, labels are for clothes not people. peace out!

 

I think a was always like that. my parents morales and love for music came from the 60's. actually, i talked today to my dad, and he said that when he heard for the first time a rolling stones song, his life changed...anyways, i think i was raised with a liberal, freedom loving and peace wishing character...lol

 

well.i count myself as a human,but i've been labled just about every adjective you can think of....
about the dark/goth thing:
i think we all go through it in some way or another.
i did-went for years with shaved head/all black/dark music (negative emoting alot)/combat boots/quiet or silent alot/heavy poetry/dark art(lots of shadows/ drugs/alcohol/even went through a really scary period of feeling everything dying/and fought a demon within myself during the drug period and nearly lost.
~anyway,i think we have to go through the dark to appreciate the Light.
my friend/mentor says
"we have to experience what we aren't so we can choose to be who we are"
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i made my own transition slowly,going to fesitivals and dancing.(at first i absolutely would NOT dance and just watched/ridiculed people who did)my devils horns turned into a mo-hawk which turned into a dready mo-hawk,which after my first Rainbow got shaved and grew out and then (just recently) got dreaded again.
~~~~~~~~~
so-i don't know that i'm a hippy,per se.
i try to be hip to the condition of the world,my brothers and sisters,i do practice loving myself and others,being more concious and aware,i am changing my agreements and my belief system slowly...
"and every body seems to think i am"
so i guess,right now is when i realized i was a hippy-this moment.
i love all you humans out there bravely trying to figure it out!
thank you...SO MUCH!

 

when I first had really bad b.o. and my armpit haier was starting to grow rapidly

 

^^^^ lol

 

I don't know, it's a gradual transition that's still in the process. I just decided to be nicer, and I found these forums and figured that I have a bunch in common with lots of you. So I guess some might call me a hippie, though I don't really dress the stereotypical way or anything.

 

a lot of us hate labels. for me, people who label other people are just wanting to be labeled themselves

 

when i reallized that i love classic rock and i wanted to get in touch with peace

 

i don't necessarily label myself.
i do wear the clothes...
love wearing the clothes actually
but i came to my enlightenment of my being a hippie a few years ago.
i couldn't handle teenage drama BS and i just started telling everyone:
peace, love, and happiness.
screw drama, ya know?
live by it.
and i personally live by it as a religion.
in a sense at least.


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alright, thanks a bunch for all the replies! i'm beginning to become more content with myself, and i think i'll be alright being a hippie/goth.