Cool People Theory
I was walking the dog with LB and we got to talking about Cool People. I decided to attempt to quantify Cool People a little.
On the scale of closeness to you, where Complete Stranger is at the bottom and Best Friend is at the top, Cool People are the folks in between Acquaintances and Friends. I wasn't sure there was a term for it, so I coined one. Cool People are the people you see about as often as Acquaintances, but know better than Acquaintances. However, you wouldn't quite consider them Friends (you might refer to them such to others) because you know deep down that you don't know each other well enough to call them a Friend. Indeed, seeing them as such would cheapen the title Friend.
Not that you don't like them; I see all my Cool People as potential Friends and would love someday to not have any Cool People but instead have all of them be Friends. But I can't make that happen this side of eternity, so I have to settle for letting them be Cool People.
Now why did I want to post that? I forgot. Heh... forgive me.
Happy Birthday, LB!
On the scale of closeness to you, where Complete Stranger is at the bottom and Best Friend is at the top, Cool People are the folks in between Acquaintances and Friends. I wasn't sure there was a term for it, so I coined one. Cool People are the people you see about as often as Acquaintances, but know better than Acquaintances. However, you wouldn't quite consider them Friends (you might refer to them such to others) because you know deep down that you don't know each other well enough to call them a Friend. Indeed, seeing them as such would cheapen the title Friend.
Not that you don't like them; I see all my Cool People as potential Friends and would love someday to not have any Cool People but instead have all of them be Friends. But I can't make that happen this side of eternity, so I have to settle for letting them be Cool People.
Now why did I want to post that? I forgot. Heh... forgive me.
Happy Birthday, LB!