Being Cool < Being Sincere

I don’t understand why people get so embarrassed by their sincere emotions; I’m talking about the good emotions that cannot harm another person but might just warm their heart and make their day. Why is it that some folks hold back how they really feel about someone when it is a positive feeling? Why is it easier for most people to tell someone that they do not like them than it is to tell someone they love them? If I held back these emotions I think I might burst and I would have never had the chance to tell my friend Daniel how much I loved him, over and over we told each other that we love one another and I’m so happy for that.  

Call it what you will, “being a dork,” “being a sappy sissy”, whatever, I don’t care because I would rather live as a sappy, dorky, sissy who was able to tell one of their favorite friends, “ I love you so much, thank you for honestly being the best friend I’ve ever had!” Now that friend of mine is gone to a better place and I’m left here…sad…really sad…missing him…but at least I know that he knew I loved him and I thought the world of him. Luckily, Daniel wasn’t ashamed to tell me he loved me too and I can smile and be proud knowing that he loved me too.  

So the next time you think you’re “too cool” to “like” someone’s facebook status…that it might “weird them out” because you haven’t talked to them in years or that if you comment on their photo you might “not look cool” because you care about someone else…get over yourself. You’re never too cool for love. You’re going to die one day, that’s a definite fact, do you want to be known as that “really cool person” or do you want to be known as “the one who showed love to everyone and who truly lived as they wanted to and never worried about being cool?” The older I get, the more I don’t understand “cool.” Who defines that anyway?  

“Cool” is such a vague term and it means something different to everyone. “Love” is not so vague and is something easy to define and to feel and to be. So wouldn’t you rather be loving than be cool? If you’d rather be cool, then I’m sorry.  

If I’m not being clear enough, try this logic on for size: 

Smile > Frown

Being Cool < Being Sincere

Love > Everything

God = Love 

Show love because it’s way more important than cool. Cool dies with your body on this earth but love lives forever. It’s like a seed you plant inside people, and it never dies, it just keeps growing even after you're gone. Cool is often pretentious and not loving at all, it is selfish and that is the absolute opposite of love. So again, show love, as that’s God’s greatest gift to us. If you’re just too wrapped up in being cool, then think about this, I bet God thinks that love is cool…so be cool and love those around you…plant a cool love seed for God inside those around you.