Hippie

[catelin]

Today is one of those days where nothing in particular is going on, but I just woke up with a feeling that all is right with my small corner of the world. I have two beautiful children, a man I adore who adores me right back, a house that I love, and more than enough animals to drive me crazy. When I was a little kid, I used to imagine how I would be as a grown-up. It was always me, living in a big city, being oh-so-sophisticated. I think I was never sophisticated. I don't know that I ever have been, even when I lived in the big city.

My youngest son told me a few weeks ago that I am a Type 6 Hippie. I had no idea what that was, much less that he'd been classifying hippies! According to my ten-year-old son, a Type 6 hippie is a punk rock hippie. He told my man that he was a Straight Up Hippie. Now I don't know how accurate this whole classification thing is, since he seems to think that everyone who lived in the eighties was a hippie, but it still cracked me up. I'm more than happy to be a Type 6 Hippie. I'm happy to live out in the boonies. I'm happy that my most valuable monetary asset is a badass comic book collection that I would never sell. I'm happy that I have made a crazy, completely unsophisticated life for myself and my kids that has room in it for art, learning, exploring, sharing, and--most of all--plenty of laughter.

Other Hippie Classifications, for your edification:

Type 1: "People who protest the Viet Nam War after it's over"
Type 2: "Nature people, like nature conservers and stuff like that"
Type 3: "Disco and Afro Hippies"



The Hippie Expert & Mom

Comments

[jenrieshka.livejournal.com]

i want to be a punk rock hippie

[amazingfishboy.livejournal.com]

Where do the dirty drum circle hippies fit in?

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I don't know where they'd fit in on my son's classification system, but on mine, they'd be in the "Fucking Hippie" category. ; )

[lacyunderall.livejournal.com]

they'll fit right in in hell.

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

What's 4 and 5? And I think this should be turned into one of those internet quiz memes.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I couldn't remember and when I asked the kid, he couldn't either. I'll ask J. and see if he recalls. If he does, I'll post 4 and 5.

They were all hilarious. I wish I would have written them down that day.

[julesey.livejournal.com]

Your kid is awesome.

I hope you can remember/post the entire list. Those are hilarious.

[thepetey.livejournal.com]

i want to know if i fit into any of the other classification. Being a self defined zen buddhist who prays to ganesha and hanuman, I assume I fall into one of the categories.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Praise for that all is right in this corner of the world feeling! I go back and forth from thinking I'm some kind of hippy and some kind of puritan -- I love a person with a system of classification, for sure!

[kissel.livejournal.com]

He forgot about the drive in movie hippie. Of course since most of those have vanished since I met you, he'd be in disbelief that the drive in movie hippie is a plausable hippie type.

[harley1456.livejournal.com]

I would definitely be a type two, but I wonder how they would classify my combination of funky art, hotrods, and nature.....