How do you define cool? What does it mean to be cool? I'm talking about being, ‘ In with the in crowd’ cool. Growing up the word cool, was not in the language yet as far as being defined ‘far out’ cool. I actually didn't start perceiving Cool’ as with the in crowd cool, until the1960s when the Hippies started saying it to each other. I started using it when no one I knew was around me to hear me say it. I thought I was cool saying it but not sure if I was qualified to use it, not being sure if I were cool.
I found out that I might have not been cool when others started laughing at me for interjecting ‘Cool man!’ during conversations. I still wanted to be cool, so I looked for other things that were cool to be involved in.
In the movie’ “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly,” I watched Clint Eastwood with that little cigar in his mouth. I was in complete awe,’ Now that's cool I thought. The next day I got myself some of those little stogies, popped one into my mouth and looked into the mirror. I expected to see a Clint Eastwood facsimile looking back at me, instead I saw a blame fool, not cool at all. The little stogies didn't help me, but still I wanted to be cool.
I watched all those folks driving around in their sunglasses and they looked so cool. I ask one guy I knew inside the grocery store why he keeps his sunglasses on inside. He said without hesitation, ”Because I'm cool man.” ‘Cool’ I thought, I still wanted to be cool, so I got myself some sunglasses. I had to get those kind that clips over your regular glasses. I looked into the mirror again, hoping to find a cool dude looking at me. It was just the same idiot before with the little stogie cigar. The cover up sunglasses was too bulky, an obvious, cover up of my regular glasses, that did not convey an enhanced improvement. I was not cool at all.
My quest for ‘being cool’ was being denied by my own dissuasion. I expect it was just as well I didn't ever figure out how to become cool. I discovered if ‘Cool” is determined in today's society by men wearing earrings, I may be too old for cool now for sure. I have my own reserved thoughts about that. Somehow it don't seem natural for men wearing ear rings... unless you're a pirate.
I might be better off not being cool. I well never wear ear rings not even one. The sunglasses and the little stogie made me look like a nerd, and nerds are not cool at all.
I don't think I want to be in the ‘in-crowd cool’ anymore. Summertime is ahead and I will turn on my air conditioner and be ‘cool’ as a cucumber.

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As we age, life has a way of catching up on you. We suddenly become aware of the fact that we are not as young as we use to be by realizing some simple things are harder to do. We get a rude wake up call when our eyes need stronger glasses and our bones crackle when we get up from sitting. Weak eyes and cracking bones remind us of our mortality and that youth doesn't lasts forever.
I could never see myself sixty years old as a young boy still in school. At that age I thought that thirty was old. Now that I ‘m almost sixty, folks thirty year old are spring chickens.
I heard someone say once that when you get passed the age of Fifty; You’re over the hill, which is simply a nice way to say--- you’re old. Well, if that is true, I'm over the hill and sliding down the other side on greased glass. It was a good climb to the top of the Hill, only pausing to reflect in retrospect of my journey and giving thanks that I reached this pinnacle of my life as apposed to the alternative. As I press onward to the next decade of my life, I will search for ways to extending my days naturally by maintaining salubrious persuasions.
Everyone wants to stay young as long as we can but it is vanity to try to hold back the hands of time and sustain our youthful looks. Holding onto youth is futile. Yes, we can get those Botox shots and use cleansing cream and tons of make-up. We are all still old no matter how many Botox shots you take.
I was in the Mall once and they had a shop dedicated to the ‘Over the Hill’ folks. It was full of gage gifts and some were not too flattering, and some were X-rated. I did not see the humor in giving gag gifts for old folks, even when I was young.
Those young folks that bash old folks and make fun of them need to be reminded that they themselves will be in our place someday. They will be the ones that are getting the over the hill gage gifts from their younger friends.
Please if you want to celebrate my Birthday don't buy me one of these over the hill gag gifts. Just buy me a card that's congratulating me for arriving over the Hill with most of my body parts intact and still working.