What is it that we are chasing?

I’ve been indoctrinated with yet another beautiful thought. This time by Glen Hansard, leader of the Frames, brilliant Irish musician that I had a chance to see live before he and Marketa became world famous because of brilliant movie Once. Don’t get me wrong, I met him before he was really famous but I guess there’s nothing that changed him since then. 

On a Bonnaroo festival he said and interesting thing during his performance of the song “Happiness”. He basically said that “coolest people he ever met are either kids or old people. Kids don’t give a fuck yet, old people don’t give a fuck anymore”. 

And he’s precisely right. People in between, like me, just give too much fuck about everything even when it’s not needed. The most open-minded people are somehow restricted to be what they are for the simple reason of being judged by close-minded. I know few people who dress differently, have different opinions, and simple don’t give a fuck. But it’s very hard to meet them among generations. 

The worst kind of thing that can happen is that the limits will be pushed further. Young kids will start to care for little too much as they already do and also old people. 

I guess it’s just not right. What are we chasing for? For the cool? Cool is what is unique and independent. If my cool is worn, sung, said or lived then it’s not cool anymore but mundane. 

And why are we chasing after the coolest person we could possibly meet if the one waking up besides us every morning is cool enough? 

I want to say one day, before I get old, that I don’t give a fuck.

~ by Lenka Bliss on March 28, 2009.