Anyone plan to leave at 18 and become a complete hippie?

I always wanted to live "off the grid" but in my 18 years of life, I've learned that I'm not the type of person that can get away with things, nor the type that things just happen to always turn out alright for. Maybe I'm too pessimistic or lazy. Too something. I plan to make a decent living and still keep my ideals in mind and live the way that makes me happy. Nice and simple.

 

Sounds like wat i want,
im 14, a pacifist, and i hope to travel around n a van and live in it for a while after i turn 18 before i go to college, after that I would like to establish a career and gt a house out in the country and live mostly organic and off the grid

 

Im so jealous i sooo want to do that but there are no hippy people near me!!

 

yh i do but i dont know anyone else who wants to and i dont know where to start!!

 

here we 3 are all wanting to do the same thing..

 

i would love to leave and live like a hippie. Me and my girlfriend plan to leave once she turns 18 and head to california to live on the beach for awhile anyone down to join?

 

I'd love to do that man, I'm 16 and just finished my GCSEs, so I've got another 9 weeks off school, then I'm back again for another 2 years. I'm fed up with it now, because, you go to primary school, secondary school, college, university, then get a job then (if the retirement age isn't raised to about 156) you retire. so I can't see myself doing a normal 9 - 5 job. I'd quite happily just travel round, with my friends and playing in my band for fun. I'd rather do that and scrape by (financialy) than have a very well paid job.

 

its like my dream to move out at 18 and go to a forest in a random place and just live in like a tree house and beon with nature and live free.

 

Want to join a commune, get back to nature?
Maybe you're picturing something like this:



But all too often it ends up more like this!



But don't let me rain on your parade!
Follow your dreams!
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst!
You just might make it!
And if not, at least you can say you gave it a shot!

 

Hell ya! good luck with the commune, that's a fuck ton more physical labor than i could manage, but i love the idea. i'm jumping in my van next summer with my guitar, skateboard, and tent for a 6-8 week tour on the u.s. P.M. me if anyone wants to meet up or give me a couch to sleep on. Peace to ALL

 

these are all wonderful dreams, as i have had similar ones in my early days. but, a couple of questions comes to mind:

1. are you fucking crazy? it is not a friendly world out there. you will probably end up becoming a victim of crime, hopefully not a violent one, for pitching a tent on a beach etc.

2. how do you plan on paying for all of this? unfortunatley off grid sustainability is super expensive. you either have to be independently wealthy, or work your ass off for the man for 30 years.

 

You're such an optimist.

Kids, you might want to try joining an established commune before trying to start up one of your own, that way you can get a taste of what it's like and get some experience in knowing what's required to make it work. Then if it doesn't work out you can say goodbye and walk away, and you haven't lost much.

 

Back when I first started smoking, I was with my best friend and some guy who said he had LSD laced weed. My friend being the eager, foolish 15 year old he was, started toking right away. I stayed away, because I was certain LSD couldn't be smoked. Anyway to sum up the story, my friend had an alter ego named "carlozo" that lived in the "nether" for about 2 months after that. Turns out it was crack laced, to bad he didn't trust his best friend.

Oh and to stay on topic.
My plan is to move more north in California, and open my own tattoo shop.

 

i wana join u hard rockcaver !!

 

Very good point, Shale!

 

It is a hard world out there, i am not yet 18 as well but i know you can't just drop everything to live like that sadly. It would be amazing if you could. I also dream to be free of society but seeming as the world now it would be very difficult without a lot of money. The important thing is, is never give up on what you want. It's your life. I myself am planning on doing something that does not involve sitting at a desk all day. Im not exactly sure yet, but i will make it happen because i believe i can.

 

I know of a couple kids that thought life was easy once they got "out" of their family "prison". He's 20 and she's 17. She's already had a kid, and unemployed. He is unemployed and living off of some fantasy that changes weekly. This week he's royalty from another country. Next week, he's the distant cousin to a movie star. And the next he's a nephew of some guy in the mafia. When they aren't screwing, doing dope or sleeping, they're either begging for money or stealing.

Kids, set a goal for yourselves, but be realistic. Jefferson Starship has some really good music. One song, I forget the title to, says something about "you can't build a dream without a plan". And you can't. It's not going to fall in your lap and say "tah DAAHH AHH AHH! Here I is brutha!" You plan it and then you build it.

If you have a dream of building a farm, DO IT! But plan it out. Write it down and keep that with you. The best of dreams are often forgotten. Don't forget it! Dream it! Plan it! Build it! Live it!

As for being a "complete hippy", you are who you are. Instead of trying to be something, just be yourself.

 

Bloody Good Advice Logan.....



Cheers Glen.