‘Coolness factor’ and the things we accumulate in life might seem to be a nebulous concept to those who look at everything in light of what others might think is cool rather than what they themselves believe to be cool. As we go through life we gather and accumulate stuff on a number of different levels, and it’s certainly fun to consider how to go about making what we’ve gathered ‘cool’ in our own eyes rather than others.
As an example, think about how many men or boys have lusted after something like an Ibanez electric guitar, with which they can stand in front of the mirror and imagine themselves to be one of the rock guitar greats. After all, the chances of them actually becoming so are exceedingly small, but the chances of them getting that well-appreciated guitar will be exceedingly large. That guitar will remain cool to them forever.
And when men begin to enter into a serious relationship and babies — and when they will be brought to the relationship — arise, one would be hard-pressed to find a single man out there who would say that baby bath tubs are going to end up being cool things in their lives. However, most men would admit — after washing their newborn baby in such a tub — that they are now one of the coolest items they’ve ever accumulated.
The point to much of this is that, once again, ‘cool’ is probably more in the eyes of the bolder than in the eyes of some style maven who is sitting in LA telling everybody what’s cool and what’s not. What this means is that taking pleasure in life’s little things, especially when in a relationship that’s meaningful and intense, can go quite a ways towards making just about anything cool.
A classic example of this is something like a GE oven. To most style mavens, there’s almost nothing that sexy about an oven, but — for a couple who has saved all year long to get that oven — it’s a sure bet that it will soon become one of the coolest things in their house or apartment, especially after they’ve worked so hard to get it.
Perhaps a way of explaining how perspective works when it comes to things in life being cool or not is to consider how much emotional content is put into the item that has been gathered or collected or bought. For sure, most things in life that we accumulate we give no more than a passing thought to after a time, but there are certain things that we gather or accumulate that become extremely cool to us for most of our lives.
Keeping things we gather in life ‘cool’ means recognizing that something that’s cool to us may not be cool to others, but that it is no less important to us in both the short and long terms. It might be a stove for which we’ve worked really hard to afford or it could be a cool electric guitar. Whatever it is, they are made much better because we worked hard for them and we’ve done it in the spirit of love and commitment to others.
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