- Hi, how are you? / how are things? - Normal (meaning "okay")

[bluesmachine80]

I'm not sure I can use the adjective "normal" to describe my state or how my things are. Let's say somebody asks me:

- Hi, how are you? / how are things?
- Normal (meaning "okay")

I 've heard that "normal" refers exclusively to something related to a person's mental state? so in the dialogue above would it mean "sound, not crazy"?

 

[5jj]

I 've heard that "normal" refers exclusively to something related to a person's mental state?

It doesn't. Where did you hear that?

 

[emsr2d2]

I would find "Normal" an odd response to "How are you?" but natural to "How are things?"

 

[Tarheel]

"How are things?" is normal, but "How are your things?' isn't.