Where All the Cool People Live
Central Park 1-16-06
Originally uploaded by summerpierre.
Okay, note to self: NEVER PONTIFICATE HOW GREAT YOU ARE DOING TO THE INTERNET WORLD. The result is an immediate backslide of jealousy, doubt, and...(drum roll please)...boredom. I haven't had anything exciting to say this week. Also, I've been having that feeling that everybody else on the planet is so much cooler than me and that I need a haircut and better shoes and maybe I need to lose 15 pounds. You probably know the drill.
I don't know why I doubt that even the most COOL APPEARING people also have moments of doubt and loneliness. Too often I see myself devided from the world of cool people, only to realize that the cool people don't think they are that cool and they too believe that they are on the outside looking in.
And who is really 'cool' anyway? I mean, how many times have you looked at a photograph of an event with celeberties laughing and holding up their gleaming statuettes and thought--maybe even unconsciously--THAT IS WHERE *LIFE* IS *REALLY* HAPPENING? But it's not true. It's just a picture, an image of an event and not of those people at home, wiping off the make-up, brushing their teeth, and crawling into bed. I think the only person that REALLY has a good time at those events is Jack Nicholson, but that's only because he's completely HIGH and stopped giving a rat's ass YEARS AGO.
But I digress...I have no answers today for myself or anybody. The world is where we live, and depending on the day, it's a cool place to be, no matter who you are.
posted by Summer Pierre at
10:36 AM
3 Comments:
We all have those days... I had one not long ago too.
Hang in there, this too will pass - and by the way, I so envy you your coolness. So there you go.
Type 'definition:cool' in Google and it is interesting what you get! I like this one: "Cool is a complex aesthetic of motion and interval, of tension and tranquility, of juxtaposition and coexistence, that has its roots in various West African cultures." Who would have thought that?? This, I think, is my favourite: "the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature" ... there you go.
For what it's worth, now that I have met you, I would say that you are absolutely a cool person to know, yet also wonderfully warm and positively interesting :)
I LOVE those defenitions! So great! Thank you--I probably sound like a ninny complaining, but some days are like that.
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