You’re (still) looking well

Having recently enjoyed meeting several people that I hadn’t seen for years, I was again struck by how often they said “you’re looking well”.

I wrote about this 5 years ago: “That is nice of course, but it carries an undertone of surprise, and the suggestion that perhaps you should not be well, or still around at all. I am indeed fortunate to be well, having so far dodged the many bullets that get fired as the years progress, and which have wounded or felled some of my friends and contemporaries”.

Please keep saying it!