Truth or Dare: Are You “Fine” ?

Origin: This is a reflection on something I have been questioning for as long as I can remember since moving abroad… the social script of ‘How are you? - I’m fine’…

And for as long as I have been on both sides of those interactions, I have kept asking myself what really goes into them…from why are we asking it and whether we hold space for all sorts of answers to come… to what are we really saying when we respond “I’m fine”…?