Are people supposed to just smile and say, “Fine!” and talk about unimportant things and move on?
Are people supposed to say, “I’m breaking apart on the inside and I just want to run away from something that I can’t run away from because it’s inside me!”
If people smile and say “Fine!” their hearts get hollow, then hard, then brittle, then break.
If people say, “My life is on fire!” and try to tell it to the wrong person, it is very uncool.
Sometimes people can’t smile and say, “Fine!” anymore and they just say “It hurts so bad I took the plunge into being uncool because I don’t know what else to do!”
What if I’m a wrong person? What if I wince and turn away and leave the cry of pain hanging in the air?
What if I don’t turn away and I listen and take some of the pain myself? Is that enough? Is there anything else I can do?
I mean what are people supposed to do, just smile and say, “Fine?”