How's It Going?

There are random times throughout everyday life where you'll be walking past someone, or standing next to them, or even sit down beside them. Whatever the circumstance, to break that first awkward silence they ask, "How's it going?" or "How are you doing?" If you happen to be like a majority of society, you answer back with a simple "fine" or "good." If you're feeling wild you might throw out at "not too bad." No matter the answer, you just want this guy off your back so you can get back to just being content in your own little world.

Then there are other times with the scenario being exactly the same save there is actually something wrong with the person being asked. But instead of taking the time to get that huge burden off their back they shy away and give a completely empty answer of "just fine."

My question is have we become so wrapped up in ourselves that we ignore our fellow man? Have we gotten terribly caught up in the American dream of prospering our own lives while leaving everyone else behind that we simply turn of an intuition screaming that something wrong here is going on?

And to those struggling but simply choose to hide it, what are we afraid of? Is the fear of being weak an exposed driving us to hide deeper within our shells overruling the glory of being free and liberated?

With all this I can honestly say that I have absolutely no answer. It just is an enigma to my mind and my own experiences have driven me to pen all this down. I was almost stopped in my tracks there in the hallway simply by all the thoughts that rushed to my head. I wish I were capable of solving this issue but I come up short...