Leo
If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.
Gail Honeyman
The same conversation keeps happening, and only now are you starting to notice the script you follow every time. Someone asks a question that could go two ways, and you choose the easier answer, the one that keeps things moving. You have been doing this so automatically that the repetition itself was invisible until this week, when something about the rhythm finally caught your attention. What you are seeing is not the individual moments but the outline they make when you step back far enough. The pattern was always there, waiting for you to notice that you had been making the same choice over and over.