"U good, bro?" "No." "Ok"

Every time someone calls, the first part of the conversation always goes like this:

Friend: "Hello?"

Me: "Hi."

F: "How are you?"

Me: "Yeah, I'm good. What about you?"

F: "Yeah I'm good too."

Me: "Have you heard from June?"

F: "Omigod yeah. She's a psycho!"

And it's really tiring. Just now, I realized that the question "How are you?" is said out of politeness. I mean I knew that a long time ago, but the real meaning behind it just hit me. Nobody cares about the answer to that question. Sure there are days such as 'R U OK?' day and most of the time, people just ask each other that question for fun or as a mockery or whatever, but no one actually cares. Think about it. If you do, then kudos to you, my friend. You don't really need to read the whole post. But I think you should stick around anyway.

If I were to be honest, this would how it would pretty much go.

F: "How are you?"

Me: "Oh... I don't know to be honest. This stupid virus is driving me crazy. Like there's danger at every turn and the oxygen is on fire. If you even breathe the same air as an infected person, you might die. The mask doesn't help by a lot and the vaccine has its limits. Moreover, I hate online school cuz I was really hoping to meet everyone physically and plan out what I was going to do for the rest of the school year. My family is driving me crazy, especially my siblings. My friends have gone mental and are on tiktok the whole day. I want to learn how to drive, start getting fit, do more physical activities, learn shooting with firearms, and archery, but my self-esteem is as low as The Joker's sanity score and I'm too lazy anyway. So yeah things aren't really going well. What about you?"

F: "Oh. Lol, same."

By the way, if you speed-read that I won't mind at all. Because I know for a fact that the person who I'm supposed to be on call with was speed-listening. I really don't want to be living like that. Just lying to everyone all the time. There is literally no one who would actually care and pay attention to what I say unless I'm a celebrity and have a reason for people to like me.

I once heard the saying 'Kind people are forged in fire. Kind people are kind because they know first-hand that the world isn't'. Now if that doesn't sound badass to you, I think you may have a problem with your head. That quote made me think of a totally cool person who had suffered from years of torture and unfairness from 💩-y people, but finally broke one day and escaped only to find a gang who recruited them and trained them with totally badass leather clothes and mad skills which would enable them to completely slay a man within a matter of seconds. And tbh, that's exactly what kind people are. Minus the leather clothes. Unless they have a really good taste in leather fashion.

So, in conclusion, what do I want to be when I grow up? A cool chic who kills 💩-y people and dazzles others with their kindness. My motivation is a specific scene in my mind day-dreamt up by me.

F: "Hello?"

Me: "Hi! It's May."

F: "Hi..."

Me: "How are you?"

F: "Yeah, I'm good."

Me: "No, I mean really, how are you?"

F: "I'm fine."

Me: "Shut up and answer truthfully. You've literally been on tiktok all day ad are doing nothing except making your mind into mashed brains ready to be served to 'Zombie Lobster Buffet'."

F: "I'm just tired."

Me: "You've been waking up at 11 every morning. And knowing your parents, you go to sleep at 10."

F: "Fine. I'm &%$#@ up. I wanna go to school and not stay at home doing chores everyday and listening to complaints from my parents saying that I'm lazy. I just wanna be alone, by myself, in my room, with no one else cuz I'm literally $#%&@."

Me: "Yeah, I can relate. You know, the weather's gonna be really nice on Monday. We can go over to the beach."

F: "Ohhhh yessss. My parents have been complaining that I'm just sitting around and doing nothing. What are we gonna do at the beach?"

Me: "Sit around and do nothing."

F: "Cool."

Me: "But we can walk and get pizza and boba if you like."

F: "Yeah sure."

Me: "Have you heard from June?"

F: "Omigod yeah! She's a psycho!"

P.S I haven't been posting anything and the guilt is really getting on my nerves. Then I realized that scheduled posts are a thing and I can write multiple in a day and schedule them to be posted over time. I love technology.

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