Nothing more everyday and unremarkable than to as 'How are you?' and yet if you take this as a perfect expression of something implicit in out being here together with each other then it has hidden depths. It is an existential question that doesn't ask who or what you are but how, in the sense of 'what quality is your being?' - it is asking for a quality or mood or feeling, and if the response is typically banal and conventional, the one asked is also presumed to know exactly 'how' they are even if they cannot express it. And this 'how' is not to be deduced but observed and is a matter of the moment, or of the immediately preceding interval of time. 'How do you find yourself (to be)?' You look, you find what is there, that is your worldly 'thrownness'. And again, that this formal question represents the opening to a person to person connection, as if it prepares the mutual ground, an opening to see and to say what is seen.