A Spoonful of Cool...Whip

Okay, you caught me. This blog post isn't about cool whip. Even though that stuff is pret-ty good. I'm here today, folks, to discuss "cool" and how that is one adjective that will never describe me against all my efforts. I think the only thing I've ever really wanted since I was young was to be cool, but it used to be disguised by other words like "popular" or "well-liked" or "pretty". Nowadays I know what cool is and it has nothing to do with how many people know you. It has some what to do with how you look, but it's not really what you're wearing, or how you did your hair, but more how you dress yourself and how you hold yourself.

I know a few people that are really cool. Oh, how I wish I could just emulate them in every way so I could be cool too, but that's not how it works either. If you're anything but yourself, you're not cool. This is probably the hardest for me, because I like to imitate people. Some might call me a parrot. I didn't really think this was a problem until one day in my 10th grade English class, I said "Snap!" right in front of my teacher and she asked me, her words dripping with disdain, "Who are you?? That's so Raven?" I was called out by my English teacher for having quoted a Disney channel character. Caught red-handed too.

So what to do? I think cool is very close to self-actualized. Not all people that are self-actualized are cool, but you're more likely to be cool if you are self-actualized. Is it sad that I came up with the term "self-actualized" from reading the Princess Diaries series? Yeah, me neither. Find truth where it is to be found, right? I definitely am on the road to self-realization, don't know if I reached it yet. And despite popular belief the right answer is not to become a hipster. Hipsters are cool, if they're real, but somehow, I just can't imagine myself being a hipster. I guess I should keep my options open though.

Admit it! You want to be cool too! So tell me: who is your cool mentor? Who do you look to in moments of despair? And if you're already cool, how did you get to that point?

As I learned from Tristan & Yseult: "If you're already [cool], more [cool] just seems to come your way." This may or may not be a correct quotation. Peace, people.

A Spoonful of Records

I just wanted to say that I'm glad there are people in the world that take good records, because I am not one of them. I feel like a loser for not being able to remember a lot of went down in high school. I remember a select few things, bits and pieces here and there, and it just doesn't suffice, you know? I know what I've experienced, but I can't tell you the exact moments that got me to that experience.

I say this because I did some pretty amazing things in high school, tempered with some lame, embarrassing things. I know I won the state doubles championship my junior year, but if you were to ask me about the game I couldn't really tell you much. Maybe you don't believe me, but there's proof (pg. 4, far right.)

I was also a competitive discus and shot put thrower my junior and senior years, but I don't remember many of the meets I participated in. Sad, yeah? But now worries, because there's this website that has them all listed.

I'm not posting all these links to show off how cool I am (though really, I'm pretty awesome, huh? hahaha). I post because I am honestly so grateful for them because they serve to remind me of where exactly I've been. And to think, all this because I thought it would be fun to google my name.