How are you?
Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:58:11 pm

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Someone just sent me a message asking only this question. There was no other text in the message. This is one of the most difficult questions for me to answer. I know that it's a very common one that people ask and that it might be the most commonly answered question, but I never know how to give a proper answer.

If I don't care to tell the person how I really am, I usually just say "I'm OK", but the real answer is much more difficult to give, because I don't know the answer. I don't think it's a problem of numbness. I know how I am when I am feeling a strong emotion, but the majority of time, I am in a neutral state. I have observed that some people circumvent this issue by not actually declaring their present condition. Instead, they discuss some event that is happening in their life, but without necessarily specifying how this event affects their current state of being.