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I've never been 'cool'. My time for it now is out anyways. I was thinking about what makes a person 'cool'. What makes them better and more outstanding in the social hierarchy? I thought of the general aesthetic of what I think - or rather, used to think - cool meant.
Drinking, parties, romance and unique styles.
At seventeen, and above, virtually everybody's drinking, so that's not an unusual feature of what 'cool' is anymore. Anyone can make a party, with few to many friends, it doesn't matter since deeper connections seem to be, at least to me, 'cool'-er, somehow. Maybe it was that, with more trust, people can do more adventurous things together or that it felt magical, special to have found someone so in tune with you that it didn't matter whether you had 6 friends or 2. It's more fulfilling.
Maybe that is what 'coolness' is.
Fulfilment. The 'cool' people had everything.
Growing out of young teenagehood, most people end their desperate attempts to fit in and unique, personal styles emerge anyway. People give up faking just to match someone they thought was 'cooler' or to blend in simply to not feel alone. Which leaves us with the 'cool' of self-confidence (in fashion sense at least).
I never dreamed of a day when life would be anything more than if you're not this, you're not enough, but I'm close to living it. 'Cool' is a teenage thing. After your teen years, you find your own style, your own people and your own place in the world and that's enough. Maybe not immediately but once other people start, the pressure to be 'cool' alleviates. No one's 'cool' anymore because not everyone wants the same thing, or to look a certain way, etc. People find their own niches and dive into their own worlds.
There is no 'cool' in the adult world, where everything that used to be 'cool' is now easily accessible, day-to-day life.
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vzi-k
When i was 15 people would describe me as "cool" . However i never knew why . After 2 years i found out it was just peoples pre conceived notions about me . people thought i went to parties and did all this shit becaus ethye looked at me once and looked at the way i spoke and dressed and assumed shit about me
Being cool wasnt a good thing it meant people thought i was a whore a slut a nitty (druggy for the americans). Despite not being those things
Being cool atleast as a teen is just the vibe u give off legit
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