Not Cool
Learning not to care what people think about me.
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5 min readMar 21, 2021
When I was a boy, I determined that the best, most desirable quality I could possess was to be cool. That word had only recently entered the popular vernacular, largely, as far as I could tell, thanks to the character of Arthur Fonzarelli, The Fonz, portrayed by Henry Winkler in the 70’s sitcom Happy Days. I didn’t want to…