Were you always a hippie...

or at what point in your life did you become one? This is similar to the Teen Hippies thread but I wanted to start a new one with a new question. I'm also hoping to get to know some of the people here too

I think I was always a hippie because my mother was and hers was the mindset I sort of adopted. In kindergarten I used to make headbands and tape little flowers onto them and wear them to school. I dressed with no label brands (always) and thought it was normal. but some people thought I was weird and I didn't care. Of course now I'm a little more self conscious but I still don't do what people think I should. And what triggered this thread is that I was looking through old pictures and found one of me when I was really little with a flower headband on, flashing a peace sign and a smile. I laughed. So yeah I'll stop blabbing now. Tell your stories!

 

I didn't always consider myself a hippie, but I was always a little different from my peers.

 

So cool that someone's parent's are hippies
Most of my cousin's are rednecks and think i'm weird
But no i haven't always been a hippie

 

hehe thanks for sharing guys!

 

My parents were flower children , and raised me to be one...but i never knew it had a certaine name till I got older ,I just thought we were kinda different from some of my friend's families.

 

awesome.

 

mm, nope! say.. 4 years ago if the word 'hippie' was used, i'd asked.. 'what is a hippie?'
.. i was only ever taught of their stereotype - 'dirty pot heads'
then i explored
and discovered the beauty

i had been called a hippie, freak, weirdo, blah blah.. but i didn't know. i grew up a curious child, questioned (as most people do) and decided to discover rather than ignore what my spirit had to offer and be a conformist (to society)


and i'm so glad!
so so soooo thankful.

i love life now more than i ever have... and that love is still growin!

love, petal*+

 

thats beautiful liberer. i dont think ive ever been called a hippie. lol doesnt matter to me. even some people conform to what everyone's idea of a hippie is even when everything we're about is against conformity. isnt that funny?

 

thank you and yep! ha, life can be so contradicting..

 

yes it can... rebel against conformity!

 

wooooooooooooooo~!

 

i was introduced to the scene about two years ago. my hetero-lifemate brought me very gingerly into the lifestyle, not knowing how i would react. well, there has always been this void, this whole, "mainstream" gap i've been dealing with. it's no longer there. as far as thinking i'm a "hippie," i don't know. the words my friends and i tend to use are freedom-lovers and free thinkers. now, when it comes to the way we get down, then by all means we're hippies!!!!

 

I hear so many people talk about not wanting to conform with the mainstream culture or thought b/c they are the anticulture. But in the end they are conforming; b/c they are conforming with one culture to avoid another. People should just be the way they are and not worry about the opinions from anyone, even if it means being mentaly alone (which they wont be).

I like yuo. yu dont seem to be as nieve as that

 

depends what you mean by "hippie." i always thought there were two definitions of hippie: 1) the post-beatnick counterculture movement of the 60s and 70s' members and 2) the subculture/clique that it is anymore

anyway, as for peace, love, rock 'n roll, drugs, and long hair...i've been into that shit for about 7 years now (since i was 15). i always liked the music. i remember listening to the beach boys and simon and garfunkel (dunno if youd call that real hippie or not), but i started listening to that in the 4th grade.

 

That's true. and I completely agree. If the way I am is "hippie" then so be it. If it isn't, oh well. haha

and thanks. i like anyone that likes me haha

 

I certainly never considered myself a hippie when I was younger.
It was only about 7 years ago (I must have been about 18) when I started listening to different music that I really liked, and that made me realise that I had been trying to be somebody that I wasn't, not just in my music but in my whole life. From then on I have been trying to do only what I'm really into. Not all of which really falls into what would be the stereotypical 'hippie', but a some of it does.

 

Ok what everyone needs to realize is hippy... is... it just is... there is no you are or you arent, it is whatever you want it to be, happy, free, to love fearlessly, to make peace with ones self is all that matters, anyone who has ever loved another has a little hippy in them

 

Was Ted Bundy a Hippie? If being a hippie is whatever you want it to be.

 

I was raised in a family that ran a dude ranch and ran a rodeo company. I was always the black sheep. I didnt really find out where I fit in so beautifully until I was about 19 and met my future husband who introduced me to the lifestyle that I still love. Our marriage only lasted 8 months, but it was great in that I met so many new people and found out where I really belonged.

 

Ah it is so fun to here fucking hippie and pot head
You guy's ever get that?