Ok..What makes a person cool

[Blondie]

You're only cool if you don't go around bragging about it.

Anything else is being conceited.

 

[heart4pooh]

My sixteen yr old walks to the beat of his own drum. His clothes are diffrent than everybody elses. He does crazy things with his hair and listens to music nobody else knows or likes if they do know it. We live in a small town on the coast and most of the teenagers are into the surfer stuff. He said one time that some seniors were picking on his hair when he walked down the hall. I told him he could put a little more effort into looking normal and they wouldn't pick on him. He turned around to look at me and the look on his face was priceless. And he said, "Why in the world would I want to be like them?" I think my son is cool!!!

 

[Lewski709]

Hang out with me and you're cool.

 

[Deafmedic]

I wasn't a "cool" kid in high school. Wasn't a nerd either. I was picked on by the jocks and bullies. I recently went to my 20 year high school reunion. No one knew I was a physician except 3 of my friends. A few people recognized me and the jocks and "cool" kids still hung out with their respective groups. Hardly anyone chatted with me. Word got out that I was a physician and I instantly became "cool". Of course the girls who were screwing the jocks and were in the cool groups who wouldn't give me the time of the day in high school were instantly drawn to me. These same girls are in their 2nd or 3rd marriages now.
I'm a true believer in Karma.

 

[LScot]

I never wanted to be in the "in" crowd in school. We had different groups in school but we all knew who the "in" crowd was. Some people wanted in and others, like myself, were happy being ourselves and not "fitting" in. I had individual friends who were part of the group and I always thought they didn't march to the beat of their drummer...they kinda went along with the crowd. Many conversations with them seemed like that wasn't a very happy place either.

Today it seems much the same. Where do you live? How big is your house? What kind of car will you drive? What label do your clothes have? Etc. Etc. Still, as a hairdresser, I do a lot of teens hair. Some are the "cool" kids and some aren't. The happiest kids seem to be true to themselves.

This is all JMO. Just what I have observed and been told by the kids...