hippies vs longhairs
It was an absolutely beautiful day today! The sun is shining bright, the sky is clear and there were a million people on campus today. Everyone was out in the oval playing frisbee, reading or just soaking up the sun.
As I was walking I heard a girl say “I love how the nice weather brings out all the hippies.”
I looked around expecting to see some people playing hackie sack or passing a J around. No, none of that. I did see a group of long-hair granola looking people, but that was it.
It made me think, since when does long hair equal hippy. My man used to have long hair and people would call him hippy. He is in no way hippy. He is what I would classify as a greaser. He just happened to like long hair and he also said it kept the ladies away. And he thinks that he is so good-looking that he needed a lady deterrent. (he is very good-looking, but please)
I looked up the word hippy.
Wikipedia says this
Hippie (often spelled hippy, especially outside the United States) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s, although there is currently a neo-hippie movement (these neo-hippies hold the same beliefs and values as the hippies of the 1960s and 1970s). The word hippie was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen
I personally think of hippies as lovers of life. There are two guys on the amazing race that everyone calls hippies, and they are…to me. They are fun loving and kind, and seem to be about peace.
What do you think? Does a long hair equal a hippy or is a hippy a state of mind and a way of living?
Happy 4/20 everyone.
