I've never posted here before, But I have something on my mind. I've always been known as a hippy. I've always loved everyone and went out of my way for people when they needed it. However, it seems as life goes on, I am starting to lose faith in people altogether. That 'Hippy' side of me is still there in a lot of ways, but the easy going loving part of me is slowly being eaten away at. I have my best friends, who are very few and I've always liked it that way, and also my boyfriend, and they are such great people. They are so down to earth and know how to treat others with respect. But those people are so few these days it seems. Where have all the good people gone? Why haven't the hippy ideals of the 60's lived on? Since when is it okay to be a complete asshole to someone you've never met? I always think, "Shouldn't this be how everyone feels?" but it's not. I think I'm just rambling now but I guess the major question is, Why can't everyone be hippies?!
i digg it, theres a lot of hate in the world it seems. man some people are just miserable and they try to bring others down with them i guess, really there is no excuse for it though, assholes just exist theyre out there, and there are plenty of them. i honestly think some people can't experience love, and share love, or they just dont know how to, or dont want to. so then they hate
Yeah I know, when you try to talk to them you feel like you're attacking them in every way because they immediately get offensive. I just try to tell myself not to associate with them, but at the same time, maybe thats the way they got there in the first place. I dunno, it's a tough subject. I know I'll never let a person change me in a negative way, but I want to feel like I can talk to someone I've never met at a bus stop, and they won't treat me like shit just because I don't know them, because I never would do that, ya know?
your right, i take the bus everywhere...everyones always grumpy n shit...but one of the coolest people ive ever met, i met at a bus stop we talked about led zeppelin, and this same subject about mean people...she was really cool..i mean theyre out there obviously this site has cool people just hard to find them in person..they must have found some utopia we havent heard of yet
Aw that's sweet! People like that are so awesome to run into haha. And damn I love led zeppelin. But yeah, like I said, I do know a few people like that. And if I'm down because of the way other people are, I'll go there and just sit there, smoke a bowl, listen to supertramp and talk about everything. And I feel almost rejuvinated.
you're beautiful. it seems all the love centered people are so spread out, that we feel alone.. it's dangerous territory going out into the 'real world' - because you find the 'ego scene' ..people who are self centered, greedy, and have all the roots of evil. sometimes you seriously do find yourself saying 'WHY THE FUCK FOR?' ..what's the POINT of being in your ego scene, or living for meaningless shit - and i dunno, some people just don't get it, don't see it, can't feel it.. so, anyways man, i know what you mean by, 'the easy-going side of me' is going away, it's not reallly but at times you just feel you can't stand it anymore? it doesn't change who you are, or your values but your tolerance just goes down, but then some days, you have all the patience for people in the world.. it's all on and off, well, that's the way i experience. i just want to say, remember, you are not alone with your ideologies, and while there are a lot more 'bad' people than good, you know that for there to be 'good' people there must have been some 'bad' who changed to 'good' - so there is hope, just continue being you and sharing out the love so it can connect to some souls, to tick something in their heads so they can become 'good' and keep it going. you know yourself and you know how real what you believe in is, and that's all you need. if you can continue exciting yourself with life and the things within it that get your heart ticking, then you'll be okay. as for the dickheads, give them some time, give them love, but don't give it all if they aren't willing to accept it. we need balance, because the world doesn't.
well, it's hard to be a "hippy", to stay true to the Peace and Love thing, to walk the walk as a spiritual path. the human animal is primate and primates are naturally territorial, competative and frightened. what you're asking our species to do is to evolve beyond the nature of the primate into something more refined. evolution is a slow slow process and it's only under environmental duress do behavorial modification leaps occur. to make matters worse, our overly complex species has been herded enmass into enclosures built of our of own weaknesses, fences and bars made of guilt and greed. everyone resents being imprisoned in these enclosures but few even recognize what they resent or why they struggle and what freedom would look and feel like if freedom were attained. perhaps you could look upon your angry/sad fellow humans as unfortunate primates locked in cages. they don't know they have the key to unlock the cage, most don't even realize they're in a cage. we're a species over engineered apes and tho we've engineered our own psychological prisons we've also engineered the means to escape them. maybe we "hippies" can just be the example that escape is indeed possible so those angry/sad fellow humans who are inclined will begin to see the bars and thus the lock on their personal cages and begin to search themselves for the keys. short of a sudden and massive collective awakening you and i won't see humanity as a whole walk free in our lifetime, so we may as well settle into the a sympathetic/empathic attitude towards our encaged fellow humans. when angry/sad folks glare at you as you appear to dance blithly tye dyed and love beaded thru the raging rushing world of man it's not you, it's not us "hippies", that they actually resent and loath ... it's their cages that they hate.
i digg it, just like in easy rider, when jack nickelson or whatever is talking to dennis hopper and theyre talking about freedom and the reason that people out in those little close minded towns resented them was because they had long hair, they did what they wanted, they represented freedom...everyone talks bout freedom, you digg? everyon wants it, but not everyone walks the walk, its easy to say your free, but to actually be free, and thats what people fear man, these ignorant fucks, are in cages and are afraid of the freedom that we represent..so its like a "if i cant have it then no one can!" attitude...digg?
well, babies aren't born mean. everyone starts out open minded and geneticly programed to learn. it's in experiences, in the learning that attitudes and behaviors become hardwired. our cages are built around us as we grow up. some folks notice that they're being caged, some don't, perhaps most don't. most folks accept without question how their lives are "suppose" to be. they conform to socially accepted norms and mistrust anyone who does not. while these folks may long for freedom they feel safe inside their cages. they love/hate their cages. i think perhaps the confusion of conflicting feelings causes at least some of their hostility. they want to be free but fear freedom. then comes along a hippy, the symbol of what they long for and conversely what they fear.
Wow. Nicely said. Thanks guys, I guess it's hard to think of it that way when you don't know whether to feel pissed at someone, or sad for them. I understand the balance thing, I've always believed everything has a balance. It just doesn't seem balanced from one point in the world, it's hard to think there's so many people out there that are so real, like you guys, but they just don't seem to be here. When I made this thread I was really down about it. But what you guys are saying is so true. Its impossible to change human nature, but being as I am, I always just want to. I wish I could make everything bad and evil go away, but at the same time I realize I have that evil in me as well, I just try my hardest to supress it.
I think really what it is, with the cages thing, is the security. No one wants to throw themselves out there anymore, no one wants to be shot down so they don't even try. And it's sad, very sad.
'love the ones that show love and love more the ones who show none' ... life is simple, lead it simple, let the haters worry about hating, lets just worry about what we know ... Love! Peace
i personally have a bit of trouble using the word "evil". "evil" IMO is an illness, a mental/spiritual illness that is caused by the subverting and sublimating of basic animal instincts. i feel sorry for us humans. our every survival instinct has been twisted into something bad. our reproductive activity was made "sinful". our hoarding instinct is now greed. our predatory instincts are criminal. our self defence mechanisms beyond destructive. no other creature on this planet feels guilt or remorse. we are trapped in our self conscious awareness of our thoughts and behaviors. it's truly a wonder that more of us don't snapped under the pressure. i can only hope what we are now is a transitionary stage of developement, that we are in the awkward adolecence of our specie's evolution and that somewhen we'll grow out of being "evil". if kittens grow up into cats and puppies grow up into dogs children of "God" grow up into ...
There IS evil in everyone though. I strongly believe that. Otherwise the dahmers and rippers of the world wouldn't exist. I know that's extreme but I mean its just how you use it. I'm not saying self defense is evil, or human nature, or whatever. This is just life, we're all in it together, you'd think some people would care about the others, right? that's pretty much all I'm saying.
I also find it hard to believe in people. Quite often I ask myself why this stranger is such an ass and I find myself wishing bad things on them too. Anger is contagious. It moves in chains along the people who are willing to let themselves be hooked into it. I get ashamed of myself when I let angry people effect me and I've started saying to them flat out, "You have no reason to treat me this way and I don't appreciate it." It doesn't always work but more often than not, even though they don't apologize for their behavior they do start treating me nicer, and I don't let myself be sucked into their chain of hate. There may be evil in the world, but there is good. Every natural being has a good and bad side. It's up to the individual to realize their ways and put the effort into changing them.
