School & Cool

When I hear this song on the radio, I consider how it'd be a good song to be played at school dance (or, any dance, for that matter! 😁). It's got a great upbeat tempo & her voice is a great match for the "grain" of the song.

I also hear the lyric "...if you're took school for cool" & I recall a memory from decades ago when I in the fitting room trying on an outfit & Mom noticed that the buttons (& fake buttons too) had embedded into them "To Cool For School". These weren't large buttons, yet I clearly recall Mom saying as she noticed them & read them (which wasn't easy since they were super subtle), that Dad might not like me wearing clothing that had this on it.

I remember briefly wondering if it were really her who wasn't all too content with this not-so-flashy - flashiness. It was all fairly brief as we did purchase everything, & nothing was returned. As these were the pre-mobile phone days, I suppose Mom made sure to mention to Dad about the garment once they had time to discuss their days after dinnertime had finished. If it were a "Dad" thing, then it makes sense that Mom would've described to him (or even just shown him) the item. He must've smacked his lips, nodded his head, & said something to the extent of, "that's fine".

And so it became something I wore often enough as it was slightly trendsetting & matched a lot. (Though I never did feel "Too Cool For School" while wearing it, I may've felt like I fit in a little more than usual. 😊)

Now in my older years I'm well able to "Let it go", rather than be "treated like a fool" since I know for certain that all of these people, unless somehow made completely permanent (which, unless they're actual family, is quite complicated to do), will soon & very soon dissipate from each of our lives. And just as we're getting hung up on what they said, did, or didn't say, or didn't do (or, whatever we misinterpreted too), that person or those people will be gone - either gone from our lives, or quite literally we'll find out they actually died. And we'll have to figure out how to re-route our angst & internal upset that never should've bothered to be in the first place.

Which is why if we think we're being treated "like a fool", we should just continue on to better thinking...Continue on to better thoughts... Nary a scene from this flick should enter as a possibility.

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