I forgot to say something in the previous post. This always happens because I'm getting dumb: my theory involves a joint work of a continuous use of the computer in the last seven years and the stupidity of computers themselves that is contagious. So it happens that what I want to say very often slips away before me, just when I'm about to reach it.
If it's not Alzheimer, it's Windows, that's the idea. With my luck it will be both.

All the same. What is more important (or more baffling) about those phrases I was talking about, full of common sense and emptied of anything else, is when someone you love, someone you're loved from, uses them with you. Maybe on a long-distance call, or when you finally meet just for a few moments between lives.
It's the lowest point reachable in a relationship, just an inch above methodically hitting each other in the head with a pan every morning.
I say it for experience, although I never tried the pan, if not metaphorically. I've suffered many long-awaited distance calls when trivial phrases like "I'll hear you then" or "I'm fine", said in that certain tone, were one thousand times worse than anything ranging from "this guy just gave it to me in the ass today" to "I ate ice cream yesterday, and it was good". Not meant metaphorically.