Some say it’s about attitude, some say it’s about style and appearance and others say it’s a variety of factors that, when combined, result in the coolest of cool. This all seems a little vague. I want some concrete facts and rules that if applied and followed will make me the epitome of cool. Let us go through a couple things perceived to be cool and see if we can find a sure-fire way to guarantee “coolness”. Attitude was mentioned earlier.
Some say it’s about attitude, some say it’s about style and appearance and others say it’s a variety of factors that, when combined, result in the coolest of cool. This all seems a little vague. I want some concrete facts and rules that if applied and followed will make me the epitome of cool. Let us go through a couple things perceived to be cool and see if we can find a sure-fire way to guarantee “coolness”. Attitude was mentioned earlier.
Let us look at a celebrity who has a “cool” attitude and try to find some facts about how to ensure the cool factor. Charlie Sheen, the tarnished star of Two and a Half Men, is seen as a bad boy, a rebel without a cause who exudes attitude and coolness. He gets drunk, takes drugs, does what he likes and… gets put in jail. While it’s an option, I do not have the money that he does to post bail for having a cool attitude.
Plus he looks like he has been run over by a bus recently. I guess that class of cool has an expiry date, or at least needs a very good medical health scheme. Moving on to style and appearance, I immediately run into problems in finding concrete facts. My problem will be demonstrated in the following generalisation: it has commonly been found that wearing dark glasses and having a cigarette hanging from the corner of the mouth is a sign of bad boy coolness that many of the greats have pulled off. James Dean, Jack Nicholson and Johnny Depp have all mastered this look and been deemed cool by the world. Now if we put Malema in a pair of dark Ray-Bans and gave him a smoke, I doubt he would up his cool factor. Thus what is cool on one person can be uncool on another.
Appearance and style therefore cannot offer me the facts I'm searching for. Now the other option mentioned pertains to far too many things to investigate. This category ranges from material possessions, such as cars and watches, to personality traits such as humour. A variety of things combined must be the answer to my quest for coolness, as it is impossible to put a finger on a solid fact that will ensure the cool factor in a person. The mythical cool factor seems to have no solid basis, no concrete floor to stand on and yet, some people are undeniably cool while others unfortunately remain irrevocably uncool.
While the cool factor is obviously out of my reach at this point, I can impart some wisdom on what is guaranteed to make you uncool. Poking someone in the stomach with your hand when you go for the handshake and they go for the hug: forever uncool. Body odour and bad breath follow close behind as other cast-iron ways to make it into the books of the uncool. Otherwise there are no clear cut rules. Some have it, others don't.
