The Death of the Chill

"Chill" is something that us young people love to recommend parents, teachers, policemen, and each other. I find chill something to be done without.

To Chill is to hold back passion, to deny that anything in this beautiful word excites you. Chillsters are afraid of commitment, they are afraid to give themselves to anything too fully to quickly abandon. To be Chill is to be void, to be safe, to be boring. The Chill avoid any action that would show their beliefs, much as skirt wearers avoid action that would show their underwear; to believe, to burn with zeal, to care- this is all very un-Chill.

I choose not to be chill. I choose to engage. I choose to breathe. I choose to consume and digest life. I will seek and find that which entices me; I will live, life intact. I choose to interact with the world. I will not be cathartic- I will not be cool. I will burn with intensity for that which I love. I will commit, and if that to which I commit brings me unwanted attention, I will stand for my commitment. In investing my self in this green world I refuse the protected ice cube offered me by my peers, I leave them to their ice, chilled to death.

ps-I realize the my definition of chill does not align at all levels with the normal definition of that word. I hope this is a point that can be overlooked.