By Dan-Herley Mathieu

“What does that really mean?”

Yeah, it is America, it is freedom. You can be whatever you want

to. Those are what most of us think America is all about and it is great,

but I have something to ask you: What does that mean?

With that simple question I am asking you a lot. Are you doing what

you are doing to be cool or because it is something that you really want

to do? Why is being cool so important nowadays? Do you really think it

is cool to be cool? I am not trying to judge anybody. Who am I to judge

you, in fact? I am just a regular guy who wants to share his opinions with

the rest of world.

What I am asking is, do you feel comfortable being yourself? Are

you doing what you are doing because they are what you really want to

do or are you doing them because of friends and relatives? Are you

wearing this shit because you feel like wearing it for yourself or just

because you have seen some popular dude wearing it? Is that song

what you really want to listen to?

Most of the time we get the “it is freedom, you can be anything you

want” wrong. My understanding of it is to be true with myself, my beliefs

and the values that I have. It personally means to me that I should hang

with people that really motivate me to be at my best, not with the ones

that think that I am just cool. It also means to me that I am free to strive

to have the personality that I truly want to have, not the one that movies

are selling to me.

Being cool for me is not always trying to please others, but always

trying to please myself by doing the right choices that others will also

enjoy. Being cool is not about doing what we see others doing; it is about

what we do ourselves. We are all cool in our own ways. Stop trying to be

cool so that you can fit in or so that those people might hang with you,

please. Stop trying to be something that you already are, I am begging

you.