Any ex-hippies here (are you still at hippie at heart)?

My dad used to be a hippie. He’s made a full 180 on that, though. Or maybe a 160? Or 200? Hard to tell.

Anniversary of Woodstock, today.

My parents were rednecks and I was born too late to be a hippy, but there is still a lot of kid in me. I would have made a good Woodstocker.

I just cut my long hair last night :( In a sense it’s kind of sad. I wasn’t a 60s hippie but felt pretty much like a modern hippie. Oh well. I literally feel like I’ve cut off my “organic” side and feel to the world. I mean I still love the vision I have and what not, but when I see some musicians with really long hair, especially men I say to myself, “Damn, I know how he feels, he’s alive right now, unharmed by the choke hold on society.” With that being said, I’m learning to let go of the hippie at heart. There are just somethings about that lifestyle that hold me back. (being over relaxed about life to the point where projects are just overlapping, not being able to feel fit in to this society and etc)

Well, I missed the full blown “hippie” scene by a few years, being a teen and young adult in the 70’s but yep, I am still a “hippie” at heart.
I live on property in the hills, am a nature nut, shower in my garden hose while sitting in my cold hot tub on summer nights, still in-joy a little herbal essence and don’t support guns, wars, and the bullshit of society. I’m a happy little camper, still going swtrong qfter all these years.

What a long strange trip it’s been. ;-)

Been there. Done that. Moved on.

I was a hippy for one Sumer in the early 1970’s. It was cool while it lasted. But that was not me or my version of reality. I slowly realized that I must start functioning again if I wanted to have a successful future in college and beyond. HA, I was even a liberal Democrat back then!

I’ve worked hard over the last 4 decades while taking full advantage of capitalism and the stock market. I’m 61 now and have a lot of resources to insure bright and comfortable retirement years for my wife and me.

I have an old friend that is still a hippy. He is 60 years old and works in recycling, goes to protest marches and sells incense sticks on the streets someplace in Montana. He owns nothing of monetary value. He has no savings, no house or “global warmer” (car). God bless him and more power to him. He is a true believer in peace, love and saving the Earth’s environment. But sadly his lifestyle has handed him a dire financial future.

I was born in the 80s, so, I’m way too late… but my mother always introduces me to people as her flower child.

I am. I was exactly the right age to enjoy the hell out of the sixties. When I retired three years ago and quit having to live in an office, I let my hair grow out and went back to wearing hoop earrings and jeans.

I never lived in a commune, never got into trouble with drugs, and didn’t do very much in the way of marches and protests, but my sympathies were with the prevailing spirit of my generation, and they still are.

@Jeruba Cheers! I love all the young hippie river kids in my zone. Certain areas still have that flavor, my area is one of them. Northern Ca. has the best hippies, young and old. lol ;-)

My uncle. He claims today it was just an excuse to “get high, waste time, fuck anybody, and not be afraid to smell bad.”
I didn’t know him then, but he has pictures. He looks pretty awful.
Today, he is a great guy, retired, and loaded.
@Coloma That’s my uncle talking, not me. I bet you are clean, responsible and respectable. That’s how I think of you.

@Coloma, and they’re still alive and well in places like Felton, where just to walk into a grocery store is to step back 50 years. It’s a trip.

@josie Yes, I am a classy hippie girl. lol
@Jeruba Love it!

I think ” hippie” has a lot of negativity associated with those not truly familiar with the whole movement.
Stereotypes like dirty, stoned 100% of your life, orgies, drugs and towing your tots around naked in the dirt while you’re tripping at a Dead concert.

I prefer to say ” Bohemian” which has a much less stigmatized stereotype.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to get naked in my cold hot on this sweltering afternoon at 4:20. lolol

Yep, I was always a ‘hippie’ at heart & basically, I am still a hippie at heart. I joined the various protests about the war in Viet Nam (it horrified me that the young men that I went to high school with were being drafted to fight this war & they were too young to vote or to buy alcohol) & I was involved in the early Civil Rights movement. I didn’t do any of the drugs, nor did I drink alcohol – but I was a free spirit & an artist ( & I am still ).

I was a little young for the full blown hippie experience, but a lot of my friends had parents who were hard core hippie types, living on the hills above Santa Barbara in homes (or tipis) they made themselves. I did cut school to attend a peace march or 3, but no drugs and free love (sorry kids, mom really never dropped acid). I must admit I still love long hair and bluejeans on guys, a guy in a business suit does nothing for my hormones.

I was never a hippie but I have always been a hippie at heart and I still am. I wore my hair long for years and I protested against the Vietnam War and I listened to the music and I was glad the hippies existed. ‘Straight society’ seemed unnatural and cold and repressive and ultimately unsustainable and I still believe that though my views have mellowed with the years. To ‘drop out’ seemed a most admirable thing to do but I never dropped out. I stayed well in and just looked out the window instead as my heroes grew old and began to disappoint me. But it didn’t matter, because I always knew the hippies were right. Material things are of little importance, what we need is colour and creativity and kindness and each other.