Often times people put on a show for the people they are around. Although i dont think there is one way to inturputed the word cool people will make up there own meaning for the word and everyone in there group will live by that meaning. So they act the way they think they have to, to fit in. This does not make a person fake at all this just mean that they are playing the role that were giving . In some case this can limite the thing they can do in life giving the group they are hang out with and what their meaning of cool maybe, but if they dont get to rapped up in trying to be cool i belive that they can have great success because they know how to play their role.

In some case trying to be "cool " can hurt you. You may get rapped up in a group that isn't good for you. Many people think black people often get rapped up in the wrong groups because they are the once that sell durg, playing dice, skiping school or goin to school and not doing well. I feel white groups are so fast to look down on black groups. When they are the onebuying the duges that the black peopl are selling. As a black teenager that lived both in harlem and mid town i can say i have never know a person addicted to cocain that was 16 teen years of age or under intill i moved to midtown and started going to school at school of the future were most of the students are white. Yet black groups are looked down on.

I feel you make up your own meaning of cool basied on what you grown up around. Some may call this the path you follow. You see whats around you. Like whats goes on in your household, on the block you live on and what goes on in school. You see every thing thats in your path. You learn from it and you put different things together and you are able to make your own path. some times people follow the path that they are giving and often end up unhappy and in bad groups. I feel cool is what you make it.