*Cool* is a word that takes on various flavours and meanings depending on the user. For me, cool today is SO many things. Have not written in ages and so I am taking every opportunity, every drift of a thought, every passing fancy to put a blog down – so here is a list of what/who I think is really cool!
His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Working to remove ignorance from minds of people
Playing drums
Performing at the Thyagaraja Aradhana – not the one in Cleveland but the one in Thiruvaiyaru
Led Zeppelin
Swimming
Dancing
Shakti
Meditation
Gratitude
Yoga
Saatvic food
Sanskrit
fugney says:
I’m over the “cool” phase now. I don’t find anything cool anymore. I find some things “pretty”, some things “nice”, some things “funny” and some things “interesting”. I think I’m a happier person now.
“Cool” is another word I can no more make sense of.
December 2, 2006 — 9:03 am
ruchikapoor says:
My thoughts, exactly.
‘Cool’ has got to be the most detrimental word to make way into our generation’s vocabulary.
December 4, 2006 — 2:59 am
fugney says:
Yes, true:)
December 4, 2006 — 4:44 am
quizling says:
“Our” generation? The slangy sense of the word was very popular in the 50s and 60s, when even uncool me wasn’t around!
December 4, 2006 — 8:33 am
ruchikapoor says:
Okay, how about our generation in India, which is really what I meant? I don’t know…I might be way off here, but people were somehow less concerned about being perceived as cool when the word ‘cool’ wasn’t part of their vocabulary.
December 4, 2006 — 9:21 am
Lakshmi says:
but people were somehow less concerned about being perceived as cool when the word ‘cool’ wasn’t part of their vocabulary.
Really? I can’t see how that could be – the desire to fit in, to conform to the popular stereotype or whatever is as age-old as anything could get. Cool is just a new term, I think.
December 4, 2006 — 4:22 pm
fugney says:
Cool is just a new term, I think.
Yes, but as a concept, I think it is harsher on non-conformists. And it is also very empty I think (as most kids perceive “cool” these days). “Cool” is about what you wear, how much people are impressed with you, and often, how much “right” you have to be snobbish to the “uncool” kids.
December 4, 2006 — 6:30 pm
Lakshmi says:
Cool is what you make of it, right? To be cool may mean to be hip, to be a part of the *in* crowd, what have you. If you check my list, it has nothing to do with being socially accepted or looked up to or any of those things – the word is not larger than what it means.
I think I’m a happier person now.
I don’t think I ever took *cool* as seriously as that…
December 4, 2006 — 4:20 pm
fugney says:
If you check my list, it has nothing to do with being socially accepted
I understand that. I wasn’t criticising your finding things “cool”. I just didn’t understand the need for using the word “cool” when there are so many other appropriate ways to describe these things.
I don’t think I ever took *cool* as seriously as that…
Good for you:)
December 4, 2006 — 6:22 pm