When does something starts to be uncool?

We spend most of our time asking ourselves if we are doing the right thing. Am I wearing the right spects(glasses)? Am I staying in the right part of the city? Have we admitted our child to the right school?. Everyone wants to be “cool”. But what exactly is “COOL”? It’s very difficult if we can find a definition but it’s a kind of a magical word. Having an i-phone is cool but using a Nokia 1100 is not. Check-in to a pub with friends  is cool but reading in a library is not. Once you define it, it isn't cool anymore. Cool is something which is effortlessly unconventional. Something which is against the mainstream.

There is very thin line between cool and classic. Most of the classic things like drinking a 200 year old wine or riding a Royal Enfield is weighed as cool. This is contradictory to the definition; something common is no longer cool. Degree of coolness of something can be measured by how much it has deviated from the mainstream or how well it is aligned to the trend. Mathematically it can be put as:

Coolness= Perceived Results / Hidden Effort

Traditionally here are few things to note to sound/act  cool:

Brunch: Having a breakfast and then lunch is a waste of time as well as money. On a Sunday morning when u wake up late and check in for a Brunch.

In between office breaks: Try to talk intellectual even though you don’t have any idea of the topic. Be a good listener, oppose ideas, comply with people, talk on models, create non-existent theory, be brave!

Don’t shave: Avoid Trimming for a month. Get the right look.

Smoke: Cigarettes are classic cool symbols with association with cowboy images.Addiction is not. Go for Hookah!

Don’t buy a DSLR:  DSLR was once marked as supreme object of coolness. I repeat ‘was’! Instead buy a selfie stick.

Coolness is a transient state. Every age group, demographic group, social class has its own status symbol to differentiate between the mainstream and the non-conventional.

Human mind is trained to become systematic with age and responsibility. If at any moment one feels of doing a routine life, it might be symptoms of start to a superior form of dumbness. Coolness is finding peace in chaos. With settled life there is no randomness meaning Uncool and boredom. Time to surprise yourself!

Remember: Cool people don’t do different things, they do things differently!