When someone asks how are you doing, the real question is are they really expressing goodwill and concerned about our well being?
Here is a series of questions you may consider asking if you are an inquiring mind who wants to know.
How are you taking care of yourself today?
What part of your shelter-in-place residence have you come to appreciate the most?
What surprising thing have you been stocking up on (that isn’t toilet paper)?
What’s a story from a book, a movie, an article, a conversation – that you’ve been gripped by recently?
Why did it capture you?
What habit have you started, or broken, during the quarantine?
Which specific place in your neighborhood are you most looking forward to visiting once this is all over?
What’s the easiest part about the quarantine?
What are some things you have realized that you don’t really need?
What’s something you own that feels useful?
What is your Covid-19 nickname/alter-ego?
What problem either yours or something more global —do you wish you could solve?
What’s something that you miss that surprises you? What’s something that you don’t miss that surprises you?
Which member of your family/ friend group have you been thinking about the most during this time? Why?
What’s the most generous act you’ve seen recently?
What’s the last thing you experienced that made you laugh, or cry?
What times of the day or the week are the hardest?
What’s giving you hope right now?
What’s the best thing that happened to you today?
How do you want this experience to change you? How do you think it will?
What do you hope we all learn or take away from this experience?
