Cope

Google the definition of the word “cope,” and this is what you get:

It means to just deal. To just get up every day and go through the motions until you are no longer aware that you have to consciously make yourself do these things.

I really like that word, and I think it’s a perfect word to express how so many people live their day-to-day lives. We’re all asked, “How are you today?” And we almost always say “I’m alright,” or “I’m doing well.” Few of us are fully honest. I have one friend who usually answers, “Well I’m alive. And that is good.”

Yes it is good.

I think in a way, her answer is probably one of the most honest. Because sometimes, we are just alive. We are just coping. And that’s perfectly alright.