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What is "cool"? And what is wrong/bad about "trying to be cool"?

There are 2 girls I know in my Uni course, let's call them Sarah and Lisa. And one time during the Mid Year holidays, I was hanging around Lisa and her high school friends for a short while, and in the conversation she said she hated Sarah.

I asked her why, and she said that Sarah "tries to be cool". She said she and her friends already knew about it coz they went to her high school.

Why is it hateful/despicable to "try to be cool", but it's ok to already be cool?!

And what do they mean by "cool"? Do they mean well known/recognized, or liked by everybody?

Thank you in advance.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Cool is part of a falsified social hierarchy. In reality cool is what you make it. If you and your friends have fun together, your cool to them. At the same time you may not e cool to somebody else. If you are considered cool to everybody, your shallow, because you try to please all the people around you, looking to avoid anything that will make you "uncool" to them. I say if you are having fun with what you do, and the people around you.. Screw the rest, your cool.

    Source(s): life
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    She can be saying this out of jealousy or just cant connect with a girl that has everything going for her. She needs a laid back girl who doesnt show off her assets if you know what i mean lol.

    There is problems with trying to be cool because its a character you cant immitate, its just in you and if you immitate you look like a dumb A$$.

    I think thats what she has problems dealing with, if the other girl is trying to be cool its best you avoid her as well cause shes in another world and should go back to highschool.

  • justme
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    "Cool" is kinda universally known as smooth, popular, the person you'd like to be. If you're already cool, you got it. If you're trying to be cool, that means you're not actually cool but you want to be. It's all so juvenile now that I'm out of high school. None of this will even matter soon so don't get too hung up on it.

  • Skyli
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    "Trying to be cool" is like changing who you really are to "fit in" with a particular crowd. Sadly, some people are just born cool and the ones that are born "cool" are usually stuck up and b!tchy.

    Source(s): My experiences at school
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