It’s hard to find friends who want an honest answer to “how are you doing?” I know it’s just a casual nicety and I generally treat it as such. But sometimes I am bursting—alone with my thoughts barreling down on me. I want to invite someone into my train wreck and at least laugh with me. They don’t have to fix it or bright-side it or do comparison dismissal (at least it’s not cancer, etc.) or pity me or really anything but exist in my world for a moment and let me into theirs.