How are you? How was your weekend? How's life?
When you ask a pretty much total stranger any of those or similar questions, your not really wanting an honest answer. Or a full answer. What we look for is "fine" Or "great!" Its just better to lie and say those things normally then go into detail about how you really are, or how stressful your weekend really was.... Or life. Do you really want to get me started on life???
Normally I mean it when I say "Fine!" or "Great!" but today, today I got to go through the motions of pretending I was fine and great, because I know no one really wanted to hear, how I really was... So why do people ask? I do it to. Its normally the first question I ask a new table that has sat down, and half the time, after asking, I don't have even the moment it might take, for them to tell me how they REALLY might feel. I too, hope for a "Fine" or a GREAT. Not a real explanation of how they were... So why ask? I guess its polite. Small talk. You ask, and you get lied to, they ask and you lie back... I guess that is how small talk works.
How am I? Don't ask. I am holding up. I am making it. I am getting on. No one wants to hear those things, and even those, at this point are lies... So how am I? Just don't ask. Oh and don't tell me you know how I feel, because you are not me, and you honestly... have no idea.
When you ask a pretty much total stranger any of those or similar questions, your not really wanting an honest answer. Or a full answer. What we look for is "fine" Or "great!" Its just better to lie and say those things normally then go into detail about how you really are, or how stressful your weekend really was.... Or life. Do you really want to get me started on life???
Normally I mean it when I say "Fine!" or "Great!" but today, today I got to go through the motions of pretending I was fine and great, because I know no one really wanted to hear, how I really was... So why do people ask? I do it to. Its normally the first question I ask a new table that has sat down, and half the time, after asking, I don't have even the moment it might take, for them to tell me how they REALLY might feel. I too, hope for a "Fine" or a GREAT. Not a real explanation of how they were... So why ask? I guess its polite. Small talk. You ask, and you get lied to, they ask and you lie back... I guess that is how small talk works.
How am I? Don't ask. I am holding up. I am making it. I am getting on. No one wants to hear those things, and even those, at this point are lies... So how am I? Just don't ask. Oh and don't tell me you know how I feel, because you are not me, and you honestly... have no idea.
You can always talk to me about anything. I am a fairly good listener and I won't judge you. :)
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