The Next Time Someone Asks How You Are, Be a Little Vulnerable

We confide in strangers more often than we realize

Allie Volpe
Forge
Published in
3 min readApr 12, 2021

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Over the past 13 months, “How are you?” has felt more and more like a ridiculous question — and yet I’ve asked it more times than I can count, to virtually everyone I’ve seen. It’s a socially conditioned reflex; even when we know the answer is “Not well, bitch,” we can’t…

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Allie Volpe
Forge
Writer for

Writes about lifestyle, trends, and pop psychology for The Atlantic, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Washington Post, and more.