Some thoughts…

This week during our first mock deliberation a lot of students made referenced to “hippie” ways of thinking. I wasn’t sure if these were positive or negative comments, I guess it all depends on how you view things in life. So for this blog post I decided to write about a couple of the hippie norms and my opinion towards them. One main focus I wanted to bring up was the thought of living your life by doing something that you love.  I guess the reason why I feel like it’s a hippie mentality is due to my dad. He has always been very “chill” with me and never pressured me to do anything I didn’t want to do. His advice was also to find within me what I’m passionate about and do just that. I would have these conversations with him because I was always unsure about what to do, obviously I don’t want to have to struggle financially in life but I also wanted to do something that I liked. I think a lot of people have that problem because we’ve grown up in a capitalist society where we feel pressured to do something that will help us make a lot of money and that’s the goal. I guess you can say the “hippie” mentality in this is to go against the norms and do what you love and the ultimate goal is just to be peaceful, hence, happy.  In this deliberation discussion, some students mentioned how they feel towards being forced to mainly take science and math courses. There were quite a few who felt that liberal art careers are just as important and just as valuable because they’re the careers that help shape society. I feel like if I had to give a 1960s hippie a major it would probably be philosophy and psychology. However those careers are not necessarily my interest I definitely appreciate everyone who does chose to study it because at the end of the day they are insightful careers that try to guide and understand humanity.