When answers feel too simple to be the actual answer.
Often times when I'm thinking or writing without reason, the same question shows itself. That question is "Why?"
Why this? Why that? Why am I writing?
The answers we tend to conclude from these simple questions fail to carry the same interest as the questions themselves.
To provide an example.
Why am I writing?
The answer is simply that I want to do something and I have a lot of thoughts I need to put somewhere. So why not hit two birds with one stone?
But then I feel the need to ask.
Why did I ask myself why I am doing something I do often?
This question is trickier but the answer generally would be that I doubt It's what I should be doing.
But.. that feels too short, too simple. I may be content with the answer. But, up until this point we have assumed I am always right on my first attempt at answering a question?
I'm certainly not. But, we could possible consider these questions subjective? even if worded to be explicitly about me, someone else may have a different answer, and I may disagree with it?
Is the question a question that can only be answered by the subject? If so then in societal norms my answer is immediately right? Even if I'm wrong and don't know it?
No you are not "Fine"
Fine, is the simplest yet possibly most common answer to the question How are you?
Quiet often the response from the person seems too fast for them to have even considered or asked themselves how they are feeling?
It's possible for me to feel like I just saw a million patterns that correlate with them straight up lying and not being fine? However there are also times where someone might not be lying and it still seems like it?
Anyway, one of these patterns is that they used fine to describe how they are feeling.
The oxford dictionary defines fine as:
of very high quality; very good of its kind.
But people that say they are fine are clearly not feeling "very good."
I believe fine is moreso used in a way like
Not particularly good but not particularity bad
Well, it is until you are feeling very good.