A friend asked me today "how are you doing?" And because that is a close friend, I had the luxury to pause and reflect instead of answering with a trained default reflex "I'm fine, thanks!" What I saw was that the answer to the simple question has a lot of nuance and that is why I don't like it as a casual polite part of a greeting. Today I saw with crystal clarity that the answer to the question "how are you" depends on the perspective that I take. I can choose so many. For example, if I...