"Hey!! How are you? I'm fine, thanks."
I love when people have this dialogue, because it's so superficial. Two human beings, with entire universes of trauma, secrets, fears, and disgusting little habits… reduced to “fine, thanks.” Beautiful, isn't it? Like painting over a corpse with pink glitter.
Sometimes I wonder if people even want honesty. Imagine answering:
“How are you?” — “Oh, I’m rotting inside, my soul smells like gasoline, and I thought about stabbing someone with a plastic fork today.”
Awkward silence guaranteed.
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But no, we all smile, we all play the “I’m fine” game. It's cute. Like a sheep intending to kill the wolf and use its parts to scare the other sheep.