How are you today?.....(with a must see video)

Last time I wrote about something that I really liked. Yeah- crossing the road whenever it suits you (to some extend ;-) ) is something I would really like take back to Poland. Frankly speaking whenever go I to my home country I find it hard to adjust myself and follow certain rules. My friends look at me as if I am suicidal because I try to cross the read when the red light is on.


Never mind, today I want write about something which is not so good and was a great shock when I discovered it. Usually I am a happy, relaxed and quite chatty person. So whenever anybody asks me one of those immortal questions “how are you”, “how is it going”, “how is yourself” I tend answer that I’m good or something similar. And for a very long time I thought that you do care when you ask these questions! I was pretty sure that if I had said something like “I’m bad” somebody would have asked why it is so and can they help me. Imagine how surprised I was when it happened for the first time. A woman I used work with asked me how I was. So I told “Well, bad actually. I have a terrible headache and I’m not in the mood, you no”. And what she said- I swear to God I’m not making this up- “oh, that’s good”. I didn’t know what to say.

I thought it could have been like one-off thing, but no my foreign friends had similar experiences.

I don’t know why it so, but I’ve learnt that these question asked by your colleagues, lecturers, employers mean very little and in fact whatever you say will be just fine for them.

Why do I find this strange? Because in Poland we hardly ever ask these question to non-friends or non-members of our families. But when we do, we are really interested in the answer. We really want to know yourself is.
Good thing is that if a friend of mine asks me how am doing I know s/he means it :)