Losing You

Preface
How are you? I'm fine and you. "I'm fine" that was what you should always say when asked how are you. That's the common courtesy we were taught as children. No stranger really cared or wanted to know about your well-being. They didn't care that you may be depressed and faking a smile just to get by. They didn't care that a close family member or friend was sick and possibly on the brink of death. They didn't care that you barely had food to fed you and your family. They didn't care, but that is the world we live in. Uncaring and cold. So I'm fine was what we said and we moved on faking a smile...that never reaches our eyes.