A: How are you?
B: I am fine.
Her: I am fine.
X: Are you fine?
Y: I am fine.
More often than not 'I am fine' is not being fine. It is just a filler. It is a defacto response. Just like when someone says "whatsup" the other says "nothing much". There might be a lot up but I am not going to just blurt it out right away. We need to build a conversation.
Similarily, when one is asked "How am I?" I might be good or bad but I would say fine. Actually if one is actually doing fine or good or great he or she would tell it out emphatically. But a nonchalant or dull or sad, fine means anything but that. Nonchalant is disappointment, dull is for boredom and sadness is for well sadness or misery.
But well you might just be not interested and your fine might be just a filler. I am not saying I have decoded the fine but just saying 'fine' has more meaning and layers attached to it than any other associated words. Good means good, great means great, not good means not good but fine could mean anything at all.
Also no one is ever just fine for more than a brief moment. Reflect upon it and you will find that you are more often than not either doing good, feeling bad, happy or sad. Being just fine is a rarity, well atleast for me and that is just swell actually. Who wants a life where fine is good enough?
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