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When I was a kid I wanted to be popular.....since that wasnt available I plumped for wierd instead .....I dont think going to school with blue bread and a bright green dip in my lunchbox was necessarily the coolest thing to do but it did get me noticed....
In my late teens and early 20's I had in my head a picture of what cool was.....It usually involved people being so cool they were no longer even aware of their coolness.....it also ( and I remember this quite clearly) involved people having a good time....having a good time in a really cool way.....The other part of that picture is that it never involved me.
When I look back at the stuff I was doing during those years andthe people I was hanging out with ....I think actually I was pretty cool...by my definitions anyway. No money but a bunch of unusual characterful friends living on the edge and getting involved in more trouble than was strictly good for us...sharing a house with people as madferit ( manchester slang) as I was and hitchhiking to Glastonbury rock festival with my fella ...
Of course atthe time i wasnt cool. Not really. I was as I still am a bit of a geek ....but ( and this really is my point) nobody could tell! not from the outside lookin in......If anybody had been watching from outside the group ( where I usually place myself ) I would have appeared to be having a good time in a really cool way.
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