Sonovaabiktch! My favourite cuss word. That’s the expletive I use and misuse the most. I rarely skip an opportunity to let this extraordinary combination of letters zip through my lips. The cadence of this combined-for-convenience chain is musical and it ends with a powerful screeching thrust — quite masculine, I would say. However, sometimes I misuse it and squander away the scrumptious string on people for whom I should be using slimier words of the same family, such as… Ahem! Leave it. Let’s not get abusive here.
The way I misuse the musical combination at times, several people abuse the word “cool” when they indiscriminately say, “She/he is soooo coooool!”, thereby giving birth to plenty of icebergs around us. Not that I catch cold when I realise I am surrounded by a pool of “cool” fools, but I think that the application of this word is inappropriate more often than not. How can someone who just appears cool can be called cool. In most cases, “cool” is misused. I’m not saying most people have got their semantics wrong; it’s just that they are too lazy to look for a better term to qualify some traits and therefore make the word overwork.
So, who is cool? Mr James who wears Hilfiger t-shirt, Gucci perfume, Nike cap and always drives sports bikes? Not necessarily. Then it must be the cad who uses oral muscles to the fullest when he proclaims, “Aaaama keeewwl guaaye, beibayh!” (Ouch! That really twisted my facial muscles.) Is the cad “cool”? I don’t know and I ain’t sure about you either. So, let’s pick on someone who is famous. How about Aamir Khan? He has been referred to as a “kewl” guy. But is he really “cool”? We’ll find out.
Just before we get there, I want to tell you why I have chosen to talk about people who are really cool. They add fun to our lives because in their company, we can be ourselves. They make us feel comfortable and we open up. Such people help us improve upon our spontaneity. While dealing with them, we don’t feel like walking on eggshells.
For this article, Aamir Khan is our guinea pig because we all at least know the actor and we call him “cool”. So, let’s talk about what will happen if Aamir is a part of our personal lives and becomes our friend, partner or lover. Heck, do I need to tell you that you will become a celebrity? Secondly, you will have lots of money. And third, your personal life will be a little messy because you will soon know that the actor is actually not as “cool” as you thought he is.
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