"HOW ARE YOU?"

How are you, my dear reader?

Take a moment, just five minutes, to answer this question.

Not because I asked. Not because you’re reading this right now. Just answer for yourself, and only for yourself.

How are you?

How are you really?

It’s strange how such a simple question is often answered with lies or brushed off. If we let it, the answer could come easily, yet we place it on a shelf so high that, instead of answering, we dismiss it without even acknowledging our essence, our soul, and rush to avoid it with automatic responses.

Like a voicemail message—young friends, feel free to search what that is on the internet. When someone asks, “How are you?”, before we can even say "hello," our prerecorded voicemail takes over. The call never reaches us. And since we can’t say “please try again later,” we resort to quick dismissals.

Let’s not do that, my dear reader.

Let’s say I ask you, and you stay silent. Or you ask me, and I stay silent.

Let’s not do that to ourselves, okay?

Let’s not drift too far from who we are. Let’s not leave our essence unanswered when it calls.

Take five minutes, just for yourself.

How are you?

How are you really?

With LOVE,