Pretenses

The age-old answer to the age-old question of: “How are you?” is always, “I’m fine.” or “I’m doing well.” Yet we all know that response is mostly bogus and never truly answered. From the day to day stresses and the curve balls life sends our way the internal struggles we have, we hide.  It is not bad that we do, it is one of the many things that makes us human. It is unifying in a way we don’t always get to see. Here in this place, I hope by showing the feelings I sometimes hide we all can become unified in knowing that we feel the same inside behind the fine line of “doing just fine”.