Not Cool

Everyone is cool and not cool at the same time. The funny part is: if you feel good or successful based on someone else’s parameters, you’re always going to fall short on some scale. It’s a Schrödinger situation: both enough and not enough, depending on who is watching. That’s the dilemma of navigating this strange, early-adulthood juncture.

So what is the price of peace?
Losing your senses can carry you through the night, but what gets you through the morning after, and the night that follows?

Loving is cool. Travelling is cool.
But maybe our lives aren’t as perfect as those Instagram filters. And why do we want to convince the world that everything is perfect and good?

What harm is there in letting things be not cool?Why is authenticity treated like a vulnerability instead of a virtue?

When someone says they’re “fine,” what they often mean is:
I am simultaneously thriving and barely holding on.
We speak in coded survival. We laugh in glitching pixels. We exist in a box of expectations so tightly sealed that we sometimes forget we’re allowed to breathe.

So, my peeps, answer without the mask:
Are you doing fine?
Like actually fine?