I am fine

We want to be… fine. We want to tell people fine when they ask how we are. We want to mean it. We don’t want to lie but it makes it easy to lie rather than tell the truth . Fine sounds so easy to say. One syllable. It rolls off your tongue. Doesn’t even need to go through your brain. It’s a simple and easy answer and they move on to ask the next person how they are . We want to be fine. It’s easier to be fine than to be vulnerable. To be fine just means you have to fake it. To be vulnerable means you have to be honest, it may hurt and it might cost you some pride and a scab may get ripped off a cut on your heart. I want others to be fine too. Being fine means being done with the conversation and that means I can move on to other things and not get caught up in their problems. I am fine. Such a nice answer to give.