hello how are you how has your day been?

hello how are you whattupppp are often taken so lightly. It's definitely not always this way, but so many times, greetings are in general such...space fillers. Because you happen to be standing in front of one another at the same moment in time and everyone else seems to be greeting others.

And the responses are taken just as lightly - there's never enough space between the 'how are you' and thePRETTYGOOD.

"hi! how are y-""GOOD"

Haha I know this is a little sillyfied, obviously, but sometimes that's how it seems. Not many people ever truly answer the question. It's just a conditioned response, filling the air in between two individuals and not accomplishing any of its word-potential in finding out about anything, really, until (if) the real conversation starts.

So it's no wonder that people so often just skip this whole asking 'how has your day been' business altogether. And even if the question is asked (haha sounds like marriage or something. the question!?), no real answer is ever expected.given.

But it's important to ask about people's days.

Lots of people never mention their terrible days, full of inadvertent fall-asleeps and consequent stressful popping out of beds and raspy-voiced presentations in Chinese classes. People are suffering mini tragedies everyday, which are really only mini in retrospect and when zoomed out to the big picture (But what human being is good at doing that for every mini tragedy ever?SLASH what would really be the point of being human if we didn't suffer from our mini tragedies and rejoiced in the mini moments of....joy?).

Reading about my friend's popping-out-of-bed-so-many-times-AH-so-stressful-day on her tumblr post a few minutes ago, I realized that I saw her at the end of that day. And never asked how her day had gone.

OOOPZ.

Haha so the point is to say hello and how are you and mean it sometimes. People need to be asked, more often than we're accustomed to thinking!

GOODBYE HOPE YOU HAVE A WUNDERFUL DAY 8-)