Simple questions are the most difficult ones to answer truthfully.
    For example, when asked, “How do you feel?” Or “How are you?” Or “How you doing?” How many people truthfully tell the person who asks how one actually feels, how they are, or how they’re doing?
    From years of interviewing candidates for public office, I found that the question that trips most of them up is, “Why do you want to be mayor, or congressman or senator, or whatever they’re running for? Most candidates could not reply in a concise and believable way why they want that office. They sound like beauty contestants answering questions at pageants.
    The best example happened recently when Caroline Kennedy declared she was interested in being appointed United States senator from New York, succeeding Hillary Clinton who became Secretary of State in the Obama administration. When asked why she wanted to be a senator, the heiress to Camelot commenced to mumble a incoherent sentence laced with “you know” and “like” over and over. You know, like she didn’t make any sense. Shortly after, Ms Kennedy withdrew her name from consideration. It was a pitiful performance, perhaps costing her the appointment.
    If ever you are in a situation whereby you are no longer doing the thing you have always done, be sure to have a good answer to the question, “So what are you doing these days?”
    Former tennis champion Pete Sampras was asked that the other night during coverage of the Australian Open. In an agonizingly drawn out reply, Sampras wove “spending more time with my family, working on my golf game, and just enjoying myself” around several other banalities.
    How about, “I’m trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.” 
    Naw. Too honest.