HW 30

I believe that "cool" is nothing more than a teenager perspective of things. As kids, most of us, can do nothing more than to attend school. For kids, school is their life: their job, hangout, source of education, everything from knowledge to prison. And because most of life's wonder: doing new things, driving cars, having sex, etc, are restricted to adults, what else can a kid do? I believe "cool" is like living. For instance, if a person works day and night and does nothing else, it wouldn't be considered "cool." Same concept applies to kids. We play these roles, genius, athlete, doctor, badass, rebel, philosopher, princess, etc, because they were portrayed by adults that we want to become or at least wish to be. Some people would call this filling a gap in our life, to get attention from certain or all people. We, kids, want to play this game, a game played by everyone, and for everyone, to become heroic as Abe Lincoln, or as creative as Beethoven, and so many more people. People say that they want to be happy, but i seriously doubt that. To me, these roles played by people, is nothing more than playing a video game. To add on, I think that the bottom truth of it all is because we're bored, and I don't mean just teenagers. Everyone gets bored of their roles and eventually grow up and find a new one. You know the saying "A man dies a hero or lives long enough to see himself become a villain"?(I cannot find the origin of the quote.) This game of playing roles have been going on for years to come. The man just decided to change roles, from heroic to villain. There is always role changing. Even as I watch Ripley’s Believe or Not, there is role changing as this man who dreamed of becoming a Tap Dancer, instead decided to become the best limbo player. Everyone is playing this game, it’s rated E for everyone, even when there is sexual content and use of alcohol because anyone one can do that. It’s a game, every role has to follow their rules otherwise they are not playing their roles. And as soon as they get bored of playing the princess or minion, or boss, they move on to do other things. I believe that boredom makes us play these roles, some people get stuck and choose others to fill in the gap, such as religion. Other choose to fill in the gap with whatever, they become whores or idiots. But in terms of “cool,” is a way for kids to cope with their life and cool can be anything, because people grow up differently and in many places will have different ideas of what a cool person is.