Just something I'm wondering
Do cool, good-looking people know they're cool and good-looking? Or is it all relative? Do we all think we're pathetic losers with no sense of style or self-confidence? Or do the people the rest of us look at and go, 'Cool,' realize we think that about them?
What prompts such questions -- besides my raging insecurity and tendency to think too much -- is a morning spent hanging out with TheBoy at our neighborhood independent coffee shop. (As opposed to the Starbucks across the street. Portland is funky and progressive and anti-corporate, yet there's a Starbucks, quite literally, on every freaking corner!) The place was filled with good-looking people, lots of hip young couples in their fleece and leather and a table of women who clearly just walked in off an HBO or Showtime set. (Note to Judybat: There was LOTS of girl-girl public affection going on. It's one of THOSE coffee shops.) Meanwhile, there I am reading John McPhee -- 25 year old nonfiction! In public! I'm such a geek! -- wearing dirty blue jeans, a Brown sweatshirt that has needed to be washed for several weeks and a baseball cap to hide the fact that I haven't washed my hair and am in desperate need of a haircut.
I've never pretended to be cool. I know where I stand in the world, and it's over with the smart, well-meaning misfits. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, the older I get, the more I take pride in it. But I do wonder: Do the cool kids realize they're cool? Is that why they seem so relaxed in the world? Do the attractive people, I mean the ones who aren't paid for being attractive, know that they're more pleasant to the eye than the average Joe on the street? Do other people ask themselves these questions? Am I just overcaffeinated?
posted by AnnaRay at 2:09 PM
7 Comments:
OK, AR, time for a new paradigm. The cool kids/nerdy geeks dichotemy so popular as a world-frame in high school has been busted wide open for over a decade now...
Besides, my sister thinks you're the coolest person she knows. Or at least, the coolest person I know.
On a previous note, No-Dog is on the way!
MJS
Yes. Yes we do know.
Scott
Sweet Scott. You don't know how to register yourself with blogger.com, thus avoiding being both Anonymous and signing your name. That's anti-cool, my friend.
Anybody who talks about paradigm shifts is cool in my book. No Cat II eagerly awaits the arrival of No Dog.
Scott stole my answer.
no we don't really know, but it's nice when you tell us?
When I was in college (at Brown! with Judy!), a Peanuts cartoon featured a new girl who asked Linus (I think) in panel 1. "Do pretty girls know they're pretty, or does someone have to tell them?" Linus responded: I think someone has to tell them.
Panel 2. No dialogue.
Panel 3. Girl: "Well?"
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