I just watched two hours special document film of "Hippie." It all cleared me about what is the idea of Hippie and its history. I like to call myself as Hippie. I love people, earth, nature, peace, and, all together, love. Love is the basic idea of Hippie that I believe. Whenever I said I am a hippie, people asked me if i smoke marijuana. That is funny that people usually connected the idea of the hippie with drugs. According to the history, hippie years were called drug years as well because hippies used many drugs; such as marijuana, MSG, and heroin. People! do not get wrong with using drugs. It is totally their choices. Only the reason of using a drugs doesn't mean that the users' lives is on the rock bottom and losers lives. When I writing about legalizing marijuana, I read one story of what a Douche police man said to new paper; he believe that drug users are also people and we should respect them as same people as non drug users. The bottom line is that hippie culture is not only all about drugs.
In the document film, hippies jam festival brought many hippies from everywhere, Woodstock. people get around and live together without any social rules. They showed the harmony and the peace. That is what we need now. The song "What The World Needs Now is Love" was sung by Jackie DeShannon and many musicians who felt this lyric from the heart. Exactly, what we need is more love from one other. I ensure that hippies said love our people, freely using drugs. We, hippies, have emphasized on that for over the decades, yet more people lose the interest of the love every year. Too sad and too tragedy; money, social level, power, and war is more important than simply accepting, respecting and loving one other nowadays. If anyone think carefully about us, anyone could find that we are only same human being. It doesn't matter who has different skin colors, has different religions, speaks different language, is poor or rich, and is gay or not. We are the only humans who live in our earth; thus, we should love each other more, not hate each other.
From now, we should give everyone you know a big "Free Hug." That is probably the small beginning of loving us. I am a new generation of hippie who keeps the basic idea of hippie. We need more hippies who can huge this earth. REMEMBER!! What the world needs now is love!!
1 comment:
i also like hippie cultures and their way to think about world.
however, i disagree that drug is not all about hippie. this is just part of hippie culture. sometimes i don't know why people relate to drug problems with hippies.
for me, i hope just look at it positive sides of hippies. as my perspective, drug isn't desirable hippie cultures all the time.
as you can see, some of hippies were suffered from drug overdose.
anyway, it's a interesting topic.
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