Guess what, I am not that cool! So?

After reading a couple of blogs talking about the hottest music and all-
i-tunes, you name it, it suddenly occurred to me that these things are obviously considered pretty cool. So I ended up asking myself if I am not cool then, because I am not one to die to fill my Ipod with the latest “hot” music (Oops I don’t even own one!). I will gladly settle for Lionel Richie, Freddie Jackson and all those donkey ears tunes.

When a friend gave me an Ipod shuttle, I thought it was pretty cool, but it took me forever to get some music on it and then someone stole it. But I didn’t fright, I felt life could go on, since finding time to plug it into my ears was quite an issue anyway(Yeah! I am for real). I listen to what is on radio/TV ETC, but would survive with out music despite my love for dancing.

So like I said, does this make me pretty uncool and the rest of them guys cool? After asking myself this, I came up with the realisation that the temptation to fit in the crowd and be “cool” often hits one. Just the other day after reading about one of them cool things on one of the blogs. I wondered whether I should run to google and get myself acquainted with some of the “cool” stuff people seem to be impressed by. I wondered what I could contribute to a conversation on some of the stuff.

Then I also recalled a certain BHH where almost everyone was talking about the best sellers they had read. While I am one for reading books, I hadn’t read most of them and going by the conversation, it seemed like I was damned to hell somehow. Thinking about it today, I wonder how one who was present at that moment and had never been one for reading felt that night. Did they feel left out, and desperately found themselves in front of the shelves of Aristoc the next day trying to get that good read some one was going on and on about?

This I realised is why some people fail to be themselves. There you are imagining that you probably need to come up with some wise cracks like Aivan, know/own almost all the best sellers(books) like Darlyne, be acquainted with all the intelligent reads like Tumwi, have wit under your sleeve like baz, be able to wrap almost every IT solution around your finger like Dante, know all the lyrics of hot songs like B2b, have a package of brains and beauty like Cheri, come up with wild theories like Rev, seem like you have the world at your feet like antipop, smile like duksey, be carefree like tandra, down to earth like kissfur, deep like Iwaya, creative like heaven, know people and live in outside countries like Mr.Magoo or be madly in love like Carlo.

The list is endless, but the bottom line is, the challenge of being yourself with all your seemingly mediocre characteristics. The times I have interacted with some people (not necessarily bloggers), one thing I have realised is that sometimes they (we) are driven to be someone else just to fit in a crowd. This also reminds me of edmo’s post about whether the blogger we are is really us in person.
I leave the verdict to you guys. I had written a conclusion like this but somehow it didn’t seem to fit in well.

proposed conclusion

I will risk sounding like a self help coach by saying that the grass is always greener on the other side, just coz you can’t do all the seemingly cool stuff others can, doesn’t mean that your own stuff ain’t cool, its all about your attitude darling…