How Do You Feel?

My response to this question, which I get asked daily.

Someone once asked me, "Why do men have a hard time sharing their feelings?" 

And every day, my wife asks me some variation of, "How do you feel?" 

This is my response:

For me, personally, it’s hard to say how I feel, because I feel nothing most of the time.

My wife will often ask how I feel, or what my opinion is on something, or what I’m thinking about at any given moment.

When I tell her the truth, “nothing”, she gets upset with me.

“How can you not have an opinion?” She says.

“How can you not feel ANYTHING about what’s happening,” she says.

I don’t know how. It’s always been that way for me. I see things. I experience things. And, usually, I feel nothing.

I’m not psychopathic or anything. I think I’m pretty normal.

“But you must be thinking about SOMETHING right now,” she says.

No, really, I wasn’t thinking about anything. I was just staring at nothing, and not thinking about it.

Author's Note

I posted this on Quora, and got about 1,000 "likes". I'm going to expand it eventually. But I think it captures my feelings on the topic of feelings.