If you were 18 in the 60"s would you be a flower child?

Question

or have you been one????? are you still one???
and did you or would you go to Woodstock?????
if you did I am soooooooooo jeolous.

Answer 1

I was a teenager in the 60's and do consider myself a flower child. In some ways I still am as I challenge rules and authority at times. No, I did not go to Woodstock and there are a huge amount of people who claim they did. I did go to Haight Ashbury on a vacation though.

Don't be jealous. Each generation has had its own cultural changes, just that we baby boomers were lucky to have many changes from music, to travel, to technology, to space travel.

Answer 2

No I did not go to Woodstock, but I lived just a few miles from Watkins Glen. I was not a hippie, but it was a good time and the music was great, traveling around was fun back then as people were more trusting. But the down side, soldiers were treated really bad. While I was in it wasn't safe to go to places by yourself as the "flower children" could get really uptight. I never quite understood the philosophy of Make peace not war or I'll beat you with my sign!
I got out of the service and grew my hair long and the same people thought I was great. It was fun but there was not much in the way of thought put into their cause.

Answer 3

Some people who turned 18 in the 60s were flower children. I wanted to go to Woodstock, but was not allowed. Some of my friends did go, and had a blast.

Answer 4

i would be a hippie to just nail all the chicks! plus, the free and acceptable use of drugs would have made it all the better!

i love how hippies talk saying that they 'challenge' authority and go out to 'make a difference'.

the only results i have seen from the hippie movement was raising their hippie kids 'free' and 'permissive'. this of course leads to our present generation being despondent, depressed, lost, spoiled, lack of ambition/motivation, unable to perceive reality, praise for less than mediocrity, aggressive and the long list goes on.

did the hippie movement end the vietnam war early? no, but it sure created a generation of pseudo 'i alone can make a change' attitude...which in reality, it hasnt.

hippies sold out a long time ago...y'know...baby boomers. this generation is the most self indulgent, self centered, narcisstic, materialistic and self gratifying generation of our times.

me?

i am the biggest AS$HOLE i know of!

Answer 5

I hope not, hippies stink. It is funny to many how guys of that era were able to get women into the whole free love thing, I mean thats some smooth shi.t, if you were to try that now youd get your asked kicked six ways to sunday. I would have liked to see woodstock though.

Answer 6

The flower power ( hippie) era was actually from '67 to '71 so any one turning 16 during those years could've been one. I became a teenager in '69 and I loved it.

Answer 7

I know of flower children from the Haight/Ashbury district in San Francisco. Typically they were disillusioned and irresponsible but some protested Richard Nixon and the Viet Nam war. Lots of drug use in the Haight. There were many more protesters who were not flower children. As I remember one slogan was, "Drop Out, Drop In".

Answer 8

i would love to have been born in the 60s n have been a "flower child"
i often say i was totally born in the wrongue time

Answer 9

both my parents were 18 in 1969. neither of them went to woodstock tho. i wish i could've been there!

Answer 10

I was 18 during Woodstock, I kicked a few hippies butts. It was a good time.....