Don't you think that, it's sort of a "gift" to you and, much more like a blessing when somebody just asked, "How are you?" or, "How are you doing?" or, "How have you been?"..., to you?
It seems, we tend to use a lot more of "how are you?" things nowadays, maybe because of the current situations or the new way of how we live these days.
As we're all already know, we're living in the new normal way of life, where distance plays a major role in one part of it. Apart from wearing face mask, hand washing, good ventilation.., still, we would not forgetting social distancing too.
Now, it's not only about these things that you need to carry out or keep to yourself but, which also means that to cover up a larger, much wider places, or areas, or districts, or states, or even countries.., whole world?.. Why not?... It's not social distancing anymore. It leads to another thing, that's called lockdown. Yes, we normally heard this place lockdown, or that state is in lockdown, or the country is shutdown.... When all these things happened, so does the people. It eventually leads to people living in the distance, away from each other. In other words, we "lockdown" ourselves.
And, the funny thing is, I've had this silly feeling of, as if this "self-lockdown" thing have made us to think about each other more..? I mean, especially when we have our loved ones whom you're not seeing each other for a long time now, as they're living in other places, other districts, or states, or even different countries. And, we can't even travel just yet and that makes all things more difficult.
Thus, by just thinking of the people you love or care about, and then simply asked them, "How are you?", it means a lot to them, I believe. It doesn't matter, as long as they're the people whom you know well, such as your families, relatives and friends or even neighbours.., I think, you would make their day much better, simply by just asking, "How are you doing?".., from far away in the distance....
Now, I do not know about other people but the idea is, I would feel much better and happy enough to just knowing that they're people who can simply asked, "How is your day?".. And, I'm thankful for them, as if they're indeed the "gifts" that have been sent for me, and that I'm blessed.
Anyhow, I come to realize about this thing as it does happened in my own condition too. I think, everyone has gone through more or less the same situations as it's not much different because we're all living in the distance from each other. As for me, I've always noticed that whenever someone is trying to initiate a conversation in a messenger or via a phone call, that person would simply begin with, "How are you?".. And, it's simply just like that! Well, it could happen to everyone who is involved in the conversation, that it seems now, it turned out to be a new trend in times like these.., to me 😬.
Because, in old times, we had this old habit of traveling among my uncles and aunties who living in other districts or states, where they liked to travel back to hometown whenever they have time on weekends. But now, things have changed. They could not travel for the time being, but still able to keep in touch through messenger or phone call. So, each time if they want to say "Hi", they would start asking, "How are you?" instead...
Thus, to those people, whoever you are and wherever you are from, I would like nothing more than to just asking, "How are you doing?"... :) "Over there?"...😊
