Quote from: ZaidaZadkiel on August 16, 2011, 10:51:27 AM
Have you noticed that when people ask other people, "How are you?", the person answering almost always answers a "fine" or equivalent, regardless of how they ARE ?
So yeah, don't tell me that. Tell me how you really are.
Thanks 
"G'morning Zee-Zee, I'd like to ask the same to you...Comment Ça Va?"
"As for myself, I am most often in a delightful mood...except when "Jerks" are annoyingly abusive in "character"

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"If I am asked, 'How are you...' I am for the most part, honest with my response"
"And you are right, some folks, just ask, to be asking...without any feelings behind the question..."
"Sometimes, pee-pole really need to know that when someone is asking this particular question, 'How are you' they are asking earnestly, and with care for the receivers response....entiendes? '"
"Most times, this question is asked with little-to-no-feelings at all..."
"So when someone says, 'How are you...really...I want to know...' most are taken aback, because they might have issues that need to be expressed..."
"...and all they really just want is an honest ear to listen...and not JUST listen, but LISTEN ATTENTIVELY...!"
"Not to change the subject, but a lot of suicides, are sometimes from the result of, individuals not really paying attention... "
"So, yes...I am quite like you, when I ask someone 'How they are doing/feeling today?' it is not with the "quickness.." because I am literally asking you 'How Are You Doing' with sincere thoughtful intentions..."
"Not with ah-ah...ok, well have a nice day...type of deal that we so often ghet from pee-pole, because they are afraid of being too "interpersonal" with one another...!"
"I have always been sincere with my asking...so I am not afraid to tell those who are really asking, 'How I Am Doing...'
but sometimes...I do have to admit, an occasional 'Fine' might be just as sufficient, as an all out explanation..."

"So today, I am 'Fine' happily writing, and enjoying my Starbucks with their wonderful delicious banana-walnut bread..."
"Hey someone said, 'That New Yorkers don't drink SB's...' Yeah right...go into a New York SB's right now...42nd Street...them ain't foreigners in thar...them be New Yorkers...I'm having a 'Venti' Caramel Macchiato"

"Everyone, please have a wonderful day today...and remember, ' if you live it to YOUR fullest...life really, is not too short...! "
"So put on your best 'duds' and go out and enjoy tha sun-rays...Fall/Winter will be here soon enough..."
"Ok, THAT's IT...THERE IS NO MORE..."