Cool. However you define it, you know it when it shrugs in your face.
Those ‘cool’ bastards don’t care whether you respect them or not, because they respect themselves. A characteristic of ‘cool’ is something that feels like aloofness to the observer, but is really just psychological self-sufficiency. They are doing their thing. Their thing does not include trying to impress you.
Imagine the ocean of distractions you could avoid by never attending to other peoples’ notion of you. (Yes, that includes the ‘cool people’.) Imagine the freedom you could win for yourself by shrugging in the face of this phantom.
What’s your thing? What inspires you? Spend more time living with it: be focused and engaged. Spend energy/time on real development, real change, and in a few years your life may look and feel like something magnificent.
By then you’ll be cool too, but it won’t matter at all.
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