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Are You Happy?
Not always an easy question to ask or be asked.
I imagine many would want the earth to swallow them being asked such a direct question.
We often ask “How are you?” (or variation of). Perfectly reasonable. Depending on who we ask, we may well get a sincere reply, which we may or may not be expecting. But the likelihood is we’d be met with something equally generic “Yeah good, you?”
Because that’s it isn’t it? An open question creates space for an open answer. Anything. And perhaps that’s the point. Perhaps we don’t particularly want sincere and are just being friendly. So by not asking something direct we unconsciously give both them and us the opportunity to simply move through the interaction with ease…but also void of meaningful.
Whilst all very lovely, and part of our everyday, it does lack real connection. Again, maybe that’s okay, maybe we don’t care to know what’s really going on with someone and maybe they don’t care to share. And if they did, they would. But this isn’t just applicable to casual encounters, its friends and loved ones too.
Are we becoming more content with surface level living? Deep and meaningful interactions with people have been fading away long before Covid — phones, social media — prime examples. Is…
