The Irrelevant Reply

This blog is written mostly tongue in cheek. Some points may be informative. Please provide your feedback.
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.

Hello. How are you? Did you answer "fine" to that question, even if you're not fine? Even if you've never felt worse? Me too.
A couple of times I did tell someone how I was really feeling when they asked me. Talk about catching someone offguard! The person almost stumbled doing a doubletake.
Everyone expects the "fine" answer. Any other answer is irrelevant. Because even if you answer you're not fine, the person who asked is not interested. They expected a "fine" answer. They just asked as some kind of social courtesy. They really don't care.
While being honest is a good quality, I'm never doing to answer with anything else but "fine". I don't want to disturb someone else's day. Since my answer is irrelevant for both of us, why bother saying anything else but "fine"?
Next time you're asked how you are, just say "fine" and get on with life.

Regards,
Irrelevant