To "be" everyday and to inspire others to also "be"

I found out that everybody has or wants or competes with or owns or discovers or... but what happened to the verb "to be"?! We use it only with a qualifier (like in "I am honest") or to describe how old we are, but we forgot how to use it just by itself, like in "I am".
In Romanian (my mother tongue), when we meet somebody we know, we ask: "Ce mai faci?", literally meaning "What do you still do?". Hopefully people will one day change this stereotype question with one that will address the other in terms of being, and not in terms of doing.