Being "cool" and being cool

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Pinemeadowsgeorge

Pinemeadowsgeorge

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As young people we feel a great pressure to fit in, to be accepted and to be "cool"

After having seen many sacrifice their very lives to be "cool" and having been sucked into this myself, I can say that I see a great difference between being "cool" and being actually cool.

"Cool" is something I associate with indifference, self centeredness and acting "bad" or for different people acting "good"

But actually being cool I associate with loyalty, acceptance, charity with time, energy and material, being grounded in oneself without being self centered enough to care specifically about oneself, whether you find yourself always asserting things about yourself to look "good" "bad" or indifferent..

Ive fallen victim to the struggle to be "cool" and now that I am christian to actually be cool, both things are a struggle, "cool" is the struggle to be fake, to assert a false image based on others opinions
cool is the struggle to be real, to assert the true image that God has made for us and to be unaffected by the opinions of "cool"

So we have a choice every second, be "cool" or be cool
 
I agree. To be "cool" and to fit in. In our modern society and undoubtedly our generation we sacrifice our lives in order to be something were not, to be accepted by others. To meet their standards, forgetting or not knowing God accepts us where we are at, and builds us up to what he desires us to be. I fell under this category. Most of my life up until the last couple of months were about being cool. Through high school, I was certainly not one of the popular bunch, i suffered rejection and ridicule. So when I finally grasped it in just the last year and a bit, I struggled to let it go. But God used even this soul destroying situation I was in, where I was out every weekend, at all the party's, in the pubs, with girls. To reveal to me just how see through it all really was.

I mean I was in and out of that lifestyle after just over a year and a bit. A lifestyle that so many people lose themselves in, that form alcoholics, drug addictions, teenage pregnancies.. broken homes. And I gave it all up just after I turned 18! (legal age limit to buy alcohol etc in UK) Praise the Lord! He used me and continues to use me as an example of how we are prisoners to materialism derived from constantly desiring to be "cool". I tell you this, even though breaking away from the parties, the girls and practically all of my old friends. I have never felt so loved and accepted in life. Surely this is from Our Heavenly Father.

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" - John 8:32
 
I have a similar expirence with the "scene" parties, drinking and drugs.. but somehow i am thankful that i was given the expirence of that lifestyle, someone who never had that expirence may entertain some illusions as the the "freedom" from responsiblity. As I was in that lifestyle I too saw how shallow and fake it can be, the desire to be "cool". But i think for me personally it is important to remember that since i came realize the deadly consequences that many others who remain in the lifestyle are aware to of the death laced into it as well. It is not that they don't know, it is more that they don't care, the earthy troubles of this life seem to slowly errode us away into death and decay... thats where the savior of our souls becomes even more necessary, what is phisical death compared to the death and ****ation of the soul? I asked God for sight when I was still in that lifestyle in the form of many tattoos, i wanted to see a way out of the slow death of the soul, and shortly after i was baptized. many want to not see, and i dont blame them, they presuppose they will see no hope, but i am very thankful that the veil of this world is lifting, slowly and every day, and what i see more and more is good, great good, hopes, dreams and even, though far away yet for me, peace for body and soul!!!

Blessed be the Name of the Lord henceforth and forever more!
Glory to Jesus Christ!! Glory forever!!!
 
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