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Dad's avatar

What a great insight into your life Jack. Your acceptance of yourself will help you in life as you enter adulthood and realize there’s no end to trying to acquire those $300 shoes as it keeps going to cars, phones and diamond rings bling bling as the great theologian Jack Johnson sang from “Gone.” And what about our soul he asks, does it shine or are there things

that consume more of our time. We only have so many days God gave us on this earth and so those who actually look to more lasting things are not just “almost cool,” but are timelessly cool in my book.

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Charlie Pinzer (he/him)'s avatar

As a nerd who always wanted to be "almost cool" I enjoyed this.

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Sarri's avatar

I've always been homeschooled, I didn't know that cool vs not-cool/weird and being bullied for not being cool by the so-called cool kids was a real thing. I thought it was only in the books I read ;-;

Anyways... great post :DD

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G.K. Elliott's avatar

this was a great post, and pretty much summed me up :) I've always been almost cool, too. not cool enough for the cool kids, not nerdy enough for the nerdy kids. so I pitched a tent on my little hill, named it after something obscure, and called it home

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Rea Wylie's avatar

I nearly laughed out loud when I got to the shoe bit! I know so many people who are obsessed with Nike shoes and I can’t say I understand it. Nice post Jack!

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Adda's avatar

I thought that this was great!

I agree with youZ

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Adda's avatar

Question, this is so random… I’m asking whoever sees this because I don’t know who to ask?

If I wanted to create a blog thing like this… how would I do that? Is it free?

How does it work?

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jaxyn's avatar

so glad you asked! :D

it's a really easy process since you already have an account. there should be somewhere around your dashboard that says something like "start writing" or "create a publication". just click that and it'll walk you through simple steps on how to create a blog/newsletter, what to write about, how to gain an audience, etc etc. and it's completely free :)

lemme know if you have any further questions or just click this link for a better explanation lol https://substack.com/get-started?utm_source=menu-dropdown

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Adda's avatar

Thanks!

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jaxyn's avatar

np!

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Adda's avatar

So sorry, I ask lots of questions…

Is there a way to make it free? Make sure that no one can even have a chance to pay for something? I don’t know how it works…

I just want it to be free for everyone and that no one will pay for anything.

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jaxyn's avatar

that's the default setting so don't sweat! :D

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