November 8, 2011
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How are you?
For the next week you are banned from answering ‘How are you?’ with Good, Ok, or Fine. Here are a list of other candidates for you to consider.
Salvageable – Things are down, but there’s still hope. You’ll find a way to make it work, maybe. Say this one with a look of skepticism.
Gobbleable – This is when you are at your last straw. Just about anything could gobble you up.
Doldrummy – Feeling pretty down.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – You made pancakes with nutella on them for breakfast, won Super Smash Brothers, and got a birthday card with a fifty dollar check in it . . . and now you’re sitting on your throne, the Fresh Brince of Bel-Air.
Sprightly – For when you’re talking fast, moving fast, and thinking fast.
Giggly – This one must be said while giggling.
Bonkers – Everything in your life has spun so far out of control that it’s accumulated into a humorous effect. You begin laughing and stop being stressed because at this point things are just bonkers. My life is bonkers about twice a week.
Petrified – Because once you’re petrified, there’s no coming unpetrified.
Indefatigable – Really this is just to see if you can say the word. It’s one of those words it is terrific to successfully execute. And if you do, you’ll probably be feeling pretty Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Ethereal – This is for when you dream about how important it is to love other people, and you realize how much you’ve overlooked the people you see every day, and all day all you want to do is talk about all the things people never talk about.
Lackadaisical – This could either mean that you’re feeling blasé or that you’re feeling languid. In either case I recommend it because it’s more whimsical.
Cobwebby – This is how I was feeling in my last post. We want to be water in a clay jar, not a thin flood stretched over a plain a mile wide.
Resurrected – For those days his mercy is especially bright.
Now add your own! The only way out of our wards is through our words.
Comments (7)
I hate asking people how they are, knowing something is wrong only to have them say they are ok, or fine. Granted I am guilty of doing the same thing from time to time. Perhaps it’s because asking how someone is has just become a part of casual conversation and no long is a genuine inquiry into the welfare of the person being asked.
Lackadaisical and ethereal… if only we took about 10 minutes to think about a response and another 20 to respond to it. nothing would get done and you would think twice about saying “how are you?”
haha, great list! I think I’m indefatigable right now…
I like to feel Content. There’s safety, rest, and a Mona Lisa smile wrapped up in feeling content.
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That’s quite true. I guess there’s a context where the ‘good’ and ‘fine’ answers should disappear. Like when sitting down with a good friend.
Yeah. I’m pretty sure I told someone I was ‘good’ ten minutes after posting this. It’s so reflexive! But you’re right.
This comment is so late, but I came here from a rec and saw this post. Love the list – I’m definitely using these.
I usually reply with “could be better” or “could be worse”. No go ahead and analyze it for me.