The Human Language: "Fine"

Remember back in your history you used to hear adults say to you, "It's going to be ok." Did you ever believe them? Where they ever right? Have you ever asked some if they were ok and they respond with a measly "Fine." I have seen it very few times where someone was ok. Fine just seems like it's a lie word to me. The  only time I've ever really seen it being used truthfully is when a guy tells a girl, "Damn, yo fine gurrrrrrllllllll" but do you ever really hear that anymore or do you even want to hear it?

Going back to when you were a little kid and your parents said "Everything is going to be fine." You knew that they weren't telling the truth most of the time. You felt that lie and you looked at it dead in the eye. That fact has not changed. The way everyone uses that word has engraved in our lives that the word is not one to trust. It's used to ultimately tell a lie. Though a lot of times a lie is a good thing that is intentionally used to benefit you or protect you, but everyone wants the truth.

Remembering back in my life as a child I remember that exact quote. I questioned my mom about the two guys at the park arguing, "What's wrong?" and only got one response with a worried face, "Everything is going to be ok..." I knew it was a lie because when I got a surge of fear expecting something to go wrong and everything did. Two guys got into a fight and we had to leave the park because someone called the police and my parents didn't want to see everything.

Now the bane of my existance, the ultimate reason I hate the word "Fine" is because I care about people and always want to help others and then that is the response I get, "Fine." That time where you can look into someone's eyes and they say that word, you know they lied to you, you heard that lie scream in your ear. A lot of people let that notion pass over their head as if it were the truth. Because almost everyone has grown up with the notion of "Everything is going to be fine" we all ahave that dialoge in our head that teaches us the it is not the truth.

I let everyone I know how I feel about the word fine. How they use it, how they just got caught in a lie. They always look away and relize I was right. Fine may be a lie meant for the listener, or the speaker. I wish that word was never built upon us that way. Though, I also do like it, cause it gives me that chance to show other's what I have noticed, allow them all to get the chance to speak the truth, and so they all can learn to help as well. Help by catching that one lie. "I'm fine"

-shrug-