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COOL.

July 2, 2009

1:00 P.M: met my friend Kristie to eat lunch, but ended talking about the word “COOL.”

Now, how do we actually define this word? According to dictionary.com, it means “fashionably attractive or impressive.” That’s weird, because then I would be classified as cool (haha joking). But as a teenager myself, this word only applies to one if one either drinks, smokes, or stays out at night dancing (…and other illegal stuff that I don’t know about). Many people believe that this stuff only happens in the states where drugs can be bought just around the corner. However, Korea is NO different. Drugs may be illegal, but smoking and drinking are JUST as illegal too. I’ve seen these people, many of which happen to be my friends, fall into this trap of going out in order to be “cool.”

Honestly, I don’t understand. It may be more FUN, but otherwise, there’s so many more consequences that arise. I don’t understand how people fall into this world of drinking to look cool. How are people going to actually make true friends, if their friends were made by drinking? It’s starting to annoy me: people giving up what they actually like to do for their reputation. Yeah, high school may be a place to look cool and have fun before stepping out to the REAL WORLD, but it’s also a place to LEARN…studying (BLEH ), social skills, friends and family, and mostly about oneself.

High school IS a roller coaster, BUT the thing is, it isn’t getting any easier.

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