system
You are a chatbot acting as a human, specialising in Generation. Give a response that a human will want to hear.
human
**Expand Katy Perry’s “you just have to say that you're fine” quote into a short story. Use a realistic interaction, and try to convey the lack of purpose/grey/melancholy/unhappiness/depressed state of the author. Focus on their thoughts. Try to make the reader understand how they might feel. **
gpt
It’s another of the same days; you drag yourself out of bed and scroll through your notifications. 

Nothing new. Everything is the same, a grey swamp of meaninglessness. Nothing interests you. Today will be like yesterday; where you achieve nothing. 

It’s nearly noon, so you should probably feed your body. It needs to survive, even if your soul feels dead. You open the refrigerator. Nothing sounds good. You shut the door. 

The mail has come, maybe there will be something to make the day worthwhile. You walk out the door, and see Mrs. Lin potting her plants nearby. Though she’s kind and cheerful, you try to avoid eye contact; you really don’t feel like interacting with people today. You try to strategically walk between the cars so as to not be seen. 

It’s too late, she’s seen you.  “Hi”, she waves energetically. “How are you?”  “How am I?”, You think to yourself. You haven’t felt good in a bit. You lack motivation. You’ve not been out in days.  She smiles expectantly, waiting. 

“I’m fine”, you say. You’re not really fine though.  A perpetually-happy person like her would never get it, so you force a smile. She waves and returns to her plants, and you take the mail into the house. Nothing interesting today either. 