A while ago a friend of mine Noah, made a post about how each person should be the coolest person they know. While I'm not entirely sure I would phrase it the same, I do believe that we have the capacity to change and move ourselves. We have the power to be more kind, more driven, more anything and everything.
I look up to others and feel like I am in a constant state of analysis and revision of myself, always curious about how I can be more Jackie, kinder, more compassionate, dedicated, etc. I don't worry about what I am or what I am not, I just try to make my actions resemble the person I want to be...so in some way I am the coolest person I know, and in other ways, I am ignorant, a toddler still deciphering good and bad.
It is a satisfying process and somewhat of an adventure. There are no boundaries, nothing stopping you or I from becoming anything, and it works. I wanted to go to Antarctica so I restructured my life to do so. I wanted to be nicer so I decided never to get upset when someone is late meeting me. I thought yogis were cool for a while so I started meditating 5 or 6 times/day and practicing yoga for hours at a time. Nothing is perfect but its exciting to try, to go and do exactly what you want to do, or what you desire in others.
I am the coolest person I know
And I am nothing
And I am everything
Because every time I think I know
I think I know everything
And I am exactly where I want to be
I am thrown, jarred, awaken again
And am brought to awe over the unknown
The multitudes of paths previously hidden
So I keep evolving
And making my way
Towards an unattainable goal
Like measuring infinity
I am infinitely changing and growing
And becoming more cool.
In some way
In every moment
I am the coolest person I know
Because right then
In that little instance
I am everything
And I am nothing
Because in that moment
I am aware of everything else I want to be.
3 comments:
I've actually been thinking a lot about this basic concept lately (especially in terms of my dating life). I'm trying to be so purely "Kristin" so that anyone and everyone who enters my life will know the kind of person I am, and I will thus (hopefully) be surrounded by people who are equally genuine.
I think you hit the point very well about how what is "cool" even to yourself at any moment is a dynamic concept. I think additionally you can see other people as having succeeded in doing what you want to do more completely than yourself, but I think if you look to some one from bellow you won't push yourself as much as you might otherwise. Cause really we can all work to attain our goals. I think the term cool is used as a form of idolization, which separates them from ourselves, I suppose instead of saying they are "cool" people should just say, "now that's what I'm going to do".
It has been a bit I suppose, but certainly I don't mind you linking to my blog.
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Thank you! Your blog is just as refreshing and always very introspective and insightful. For example, this post. I like the idea that you should be the coolest person you know. I think not many people believe they are, certainly not all the time. I'm also working on it myself. I'm doing things for myself that I enjoy and I find that it's making me a pretty cool chick. Anyway, it sounds like you're doing the same!
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