[hi. hello.]
How are you? No, really. How are you?
There’s this line in a book/movie or maybe it’s something that jane has mentioned before, but the proverbial “they” say people only ask how you’re doing or what you’ve been up to in order to have a chance to talk about themselves. I guess common courtesy assumes that one who has been asked how they are should return the asking. I think it’s funny that common courtesy opens up the door for self-centered’ness. I also think it’s funny that “funny” can be taken as something amusing or something weird. I’ll leave it up to you to decide in which context I use it.
Whenever I ask you how you are, I mean it. I like to know these things. I usually don’t ask unless I really want to know, regardless of common courtesy rules or weird social awkwardness. Sometimes I think that “honest” is synonymous with “bitchy” in an unintentional sense, or “overbearing”. I don’t talk a lot around people I’ve just met for this reason. Social interaction confuses me on occasion.
I spent a large amount of time yesterday people watching, in case you couldn’t tell.