Or, “What's it like?” Often asked with such a feigned high, positive sounding voice with a fake smile. Those are the worst. A courtesy question as far as I'm concerned, an 'icebreaker', an opening sentence.

In my humble opinion usually not meant, unfortunately. In that case, please leave. also omitted the question, as far as I'm concerned.
N.A.V. a piece I saw on broadcaster Max, in which writer Inger Boxsem presented her book on burnout and depression, and I got an emotional widow on the phone right after that, I started to think deeply.

My answer to the question in my title is now more often:

To conditions bad!

“In circumstances rather bad”, is the very strong title of the book of the aforementioned writer. Only the word 'rather' I wanted to leave out of my future answer.

“Why always so negative?!” No, I'm gonna turn it around; why always so positive?! A severe form of self-denial. For far too long I've been better, happier and more enthusiastic than I often am. If you suffer from recurrent depression, ADD and anxiety disorder, you don't have to use this as an excuse every time but it's really not pleasant. There's just a really thick grey veil all over your life. Then why do I have to pretend to be so 'happy' socially desirable?

Back to the widow, my cousin who lost her husband to corona last year. More and more often she is told that “it has to be done with mourning now” and that she now “has to pick up the thread again”. When I answered her that grieving is different in everyone and that it could take years, she burst into tears. “You really are the first to understand me,” she told me. That really freaked me out! I'm the only one when I haven't experienced it myself??

Now I have another cousin. The Bitch. She always asks how I'm doing and I was naive enough to think it was interesting so I always gave an honest answer. In addition, she always looked so depleted and my uncle seized. “Good, you have to say, GOOD!” Okay, the quarter fell, I got it. So from now on, I said, “All right, what about you?” Usually there is no answer.
Next time, I'll just say the way it is. So that can be: “Good”, “bad in circumstances” or “Bad but that's certainly not the correct answer?” Curious about what she says, probably nothing. But that doesn't matter to me. The point is that it undoubtedly makes her think, that's my only goal!

And how I'm really doing right now: To circumstances bad.

No more room for false vanity!

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