sacrip wrote:
'Cool' is one of those words that's forever lost its original meaning. A 'cool' guy was the guy who had everything under control, who never overreacted, was never uptight, but could still get things done. A cool guy was a rebel, sometimes a leader but never a follower. That guy at Denny's screaming at the waitress about how his coffee is cold? Not cool. The guy who gives a kid a buck to distract the waitress while he pours himself a new cup from behind the counter, then winks at the waitress on the way back to his table? Cool.
What happened was that cool guys tended to become popular guys, loved by the kids but not by the establishment. People forgot that cool is an attitude, not a measure of status. You don't need a leather jacket to be cool, and having one doesn't make you cool. It's all in how you handle yourself. You can't always be popular, but you can always be cool.
Yeah I agree. I think people confuse "cool" and "popular". They sometimes go hand in hand, but not always. Some "Popular" people display negative personality traits like being "superficial", "backstabbing", putting other people down to elevate themselves are not "cool" In fact those attributes are so NOT COOL. Its a shame that people don't really see the difference sometimes and the misconceptions that go around, especially during high school.
10 Jul 2010, 9:05 am
