I had an acting prof who insisted that the worst thing to happen to young actors in the last sixty years was the notion of "cool." Being cool is the antithesis of acting: it's keeping all your emotions on the inside.
It took a few years for that to click with me, for me to really recognise that, actually, emotions are pretty great! Messy and inconvenient and awkward and /awesome/.
Which is part of why I may casually refer to someone or thing as "cool" if I like it, but if I really like someone/thing, it is /awesome/.
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on 2018-09-10 05:47 pm (UTC)It took a few years for that to click with me, for me to really recognise that, actually, emotions are pretty great! Messy and inconvenient and awkward and /awesome/.
Which is part of why I may casually refer to someone or thing as "cool" if I like it, but if I really like someone/thing, it is /awesome/.
(You're pretty awesome, ftr.)