Meeting a new awkward person and he asks: How's life?

Seeing a friend you saw yesterday in school and he asks: How's life?

Generally lame idiots question: How's life?

What the fuck were they thinking? They think they're easing the awkwardness by asking this question but it's just so stupid as most people would just say "Life's good you?" and then they would say "Good" and bam awkwardness. I sometimes just flat out ignore the person when they ask this now. What do you say?