A question you answer everyday, its one of those questions with an automatic answer. I think most of us have a standard response, not bad, I'm still breathing, whatever it is. Its a shame that the English language has degraded to the point where conscious thought can no longer exist in the working class conversation. Instead we are left with a bunch of cliches that are supposedly supposed to resemble a language. What sort of language will not allow us to express our deepest thoughts, no, worst what sort of language will not allow us the very vocabulary necessary to draft these thoughts in the first place.

But now back to the original question, a simpler question, How's life?


Ok


Now answer as if you weren't the only one alive on the planet.


Ok


Now answer as if human beings weren't the only life forms on earth.


Maybe a better question is "What is life?"


So what? Well perhaps next time someone asks you “how’s life” you’ll think about the polar bear nearing extinction or the thriving Pigeon, maybe you’ll think about Kosovo or Iraq, your neighbors new born child, or your cancer stricken grandmother, maybe you'll think about your new job and judge the world that your children will grow up in. Perhaps your response will be the same,even after your contemplation “Hey, I’m still breathing.” But at least it will be YOUR response. Why in the world would I ask you a question, when I know in response all I’m getting back is a meaningless spew of social idioms that mean even less to you than they do to me?

So let me pose this question to you one last time, please if you're going to respond with another man’s words, another woman’s ideas, just don’t bother. I don’t want environmental slogans, I don’t want political propaganda and I don’t want cliches, all I want to know is “how’s life?”