I am OK, You are OK

Its Monday! Having a perfectly normal day, except for a real bad headache, thats preventing me from being normal:( I do not get headaches frequently. Last time, I got it was almost 6 mths back! I am fine most of the times when less than 6 hours of sleep is perfectly normal for me. Last night, I slept for 8 hours straight and here I have a throbbing head:( Someone asked me in the elevator "Hey, how are you?? I reply "Hey, I am good, how are you"? [When actually I want to say, "Dude, mere sar mein bomb phoot rahe hain"] Such are the ways... I had a friend named Richard, who went to school with me in Louisiana. He used to call me "Little Indian girl" as I was 10 years younger to him and was fresh off boat then. Ric always told me "ROS, this country works in a weird way. You have to pretend. You might be coming back from a funeral. Still, if someone asks you "How are you"?, you automatically say "Fine"! You might be all sad and your life might be all upside down, still you say "I am fine" But, there is this friend of mine, who broke up with her boyfriend the previous night and was all distorted the following monday morning. She was fumbling for a pen in her purse when this Indian guy asked her if she was OK. This girl just blurted out "I broke up with my boyfriend last night, how do you expect me to be"!!!! I was kinda amazed at that coz, why would a stranger care what happens in your life. Its just a formality, why he asked her. But, according to her, a stranger doesn't care whats going on, but nevertheless, even you don't care what he thinks of you, so its easy (at times) to just say whats actually bothering you. Its a different story, that they guy actually gave her his phone number then and they ended up going out:)) Well, thankfully for me, Jasmine gave me a "Toblerone" to set my mood:D So now I am all SMILES:)