As a former Secretary of State and Presidential hopeful once said, "I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids." Chilling is such a powerful choice of words. It implies so much at once. It implies that not only are you hanging out, not doing much, but you're also enjoying it. You can never be chilling and having a bad time. Chilling implies a level of cool, calmness, and collectedness that is hard to quite put into other words.
When drinks are chilling in the ice box, they're cooling down, sure, but they're also mellowing out, slowly becoming ready for consumption. But it's not an overabundance of fun that the word suggests. It's an even keel of positive feelings, neither rising above or dipping below a certain threshold. You can be "just chilling," which means that you could be persuaded into doing something else. You can be nmjchbu, which is a brief way to keep a conversation going. You can be "chilling," meaning that you would resent anything that threatens to change your stasis.
When drinks are chilling in the ice box, they're cooling down, sure, but they're also mellowing out, slowly becoming ready for consumption. But it's not an overabundance of fun that the word suggests. It's an even keel of positive feelings, neither rising above or dipping below a certain threshold. You can be "just chilling," which means that you could be persuaded into doing something else. You can be nmjchbu, which is a brief way to keep a conversation going. You can be "chilling," meaning that you would resent anything that threatens to change your stasis.
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