Smartest. It worked well for me, so why change now?

Chances are if I had gone through with trying to be a cool kid, hanging with all the "cool" kids of my school, I'd be dead. There's a lot of gang activity here and all the "cool" kids were in on that, along with other questionable activities. I'd rather have a future and live than have no future and die of a gunshot cause I was drunk at age 15 and I badmouthed someone cause I thought my shit didn't stink.