meh expressions like that don't make sense to me. all these people everywhere saying things that don't make sense just because someone else said it before them. it's all just peer pressure from books and dead people.
meanwhile I'm over here trying to understand and participate in conversations and no one cares about people who take words at face value. I hate this goddamned planet
It took me a few years to figure out when strangers said “How you doing?” they didn’t actually want to know. To the best I can recall that wasn’t a common greeting when I was young.
See https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/speak+for+yourself