Are you okay? Are we ever.
I find this question worse than the words "I am fine" We often ask this question when we think the other person is not doing well and we want to help. But why don't we ask this to the person who is smiling? I mean it sounds crazy, right? Asking someone who is happy "Are you okay". They will think I am mocking them. None of us is okay and that's the truth of life. If you think hard, you'll always find something to be happy about, something to be sad about, something to be angry about, and something to be grateful for. It is only when one of these things take up more space, the intensity of the emotion caused by them makes up our mood. The last few days have been a disaster yet some days were nothing short of a dream. This genuinely confused me that at one point I didn't even know how to feel and maybe at that point I felt okay. The good cut the bad and vice versa and I was left in a neutral state. It sucked big time and that's when I realised to ...