VIRB

I am not cool nor will I ever be. It took me 22 years to realize this and I'm ok with it. The idea of being cool in and of itself is a paradox. Everyone, whether they admit it or not, wants to be part of a small group of sexy, stylish individuals that look like Gucci advertisements seen in Vogue or GQ. The truth is we all can't be cool nor will any of us ever get close. The truth behind that truth is that the only "real" way to be mind-numbingly cool is to be yourself and even after achieving that, there is no guarantee. But to be yourself is to be comfortable with oneself and that does not come easy.

The truth is the only way to be cool is to be yourself. Confidence in yourself combined with confidence in your actions is the ultimate goal. That's the main goal of all this for me. I've never been confident in myself and that partially stems from the fact I'm Native American. I really do have a hard time talking about because I've spent so much time avoiding that fact. I mean, I'm writing this for my creative non-fiction class and when I sit in class and look around, I'm the darkest person in the room (as far as I remember and I'm not 100% sure I am) and I'm used to that feeling now but I've never gotten comfortable with it. Maybe that's why I've progressed towards homogenizing myself to fit in with everyone else.

I started trying to be cool around the 7th

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