They do not live their lives in open-ended questions of “How are you?”
Even if they are contacting you after a very long time, they will ask how you have been, and then also get to the point. Because they respect your time as much as they respect theirs.
Thus, people who leave open-ended questions as “How are you?” before they could state their ask, please be mindful that you are going to be wasting a lot of your time in that relationship. More often than not, if you feel that irritation while chatting with people of that kind, please know that relationship is not for you.
Behaviour always leaves cues.
