Being "cool," Having an Attitude of Gratitude, Being a Better and Kinder Person, and Striving to be Incorruptible.

Surviving Empathy

When you've lived long enough, your idea of what cool is changes with time. While we all want to be cool, relevant, and well liked, sometimes we have to sacrifice coolness for goodness. As a comedian, I've learned that if you want to be funny, you have to be able to sacrifice being cool for putting yourself out there and really just going for it. Rarely is a funny person considered both funny and cool simultaneously, because being cool is all about being stoic and stone cold, and being funny usually involves saying and doing things that aren't always very "cool." George Carlin had an old saying about being cool- "You ain't cool, you're just chilly, and chilly ain't never been cool." Meaning, that being cold isn't being cool, that there's a difference between being cool as a cucumber and simply being frigid, unemotional, uncaring, and apathetic. It took me many years of trying to be cool to realize that being my usual silly and dorky self IS cool! Here I will talk about what my mission of goodness and kindness is and why, some of my influences, and how getting older has freed me up to being my unapologetic self. Sure, you sacrifice being liked by more people, but at the end of the day you don't have to change for anyone, and you always attract the right people by being yourself, not to mention you enjoy your life a little bit more when you're not so worried all the time about being accepted by everybody.

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