Better(?) Late Than Never

Why is good better than better? Ever wonder about that? When you inquire about someone's health and they reply with "good", you think to yourself "Swell, this guy's proper" (or that's what I think anyhow). But if they say "better", you immediately think "oh no, he's been ill or life's really tossed him a curveball to sort out" (see previous parentheses). The same truth applies to other platitudes: how's your day, how's the weather, how's work, how's the family, etc.,etc.

This strikes me as quite odd. When I was in school, we were taught that the appropriate ranking was good, better, and best, in that order. On that note, not once (not one single time) has someone used the word better and I immediately thought "geez, things were good and now they're climbing the ladder to best". The immediate assumption is always that things were previously shit.

How did this happen? What has changed that attaches the insuation of not good prior to better? Has life jaded us so much? Are we imbued with so much cynicism that we automatically assume that it's quite impossible for things to have been good? Why is our automatic, go-to thought "must have been shit"?

We should change that. We should start chugging rainbows and shoving optimism up our asses. But we won't. So I propose that from here on out, if things were good and they're climbing the ladder to best, when someone says, "How's your day?" You respond with "The BEST!!!" (also applies to all other applications of previously mentioned platitudes).

Let's start to change the whole "worst day since yesterday" mentality.