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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