This is part of a series of blog posts from writings that were originally written in 2008. Hope you enjoy.

Humans have been around since the dawn of mankind. People can be divided into three subcategories: those who are mean, those who are miserable, and those who are “happy”. It has been noted that those who are mean and those who are miserable are not “happy”, and those who are miserable are not always mean, but those who are mean are always miserable.

What causes misery? A good portion of humans are miserable, with no discernible reason to be. Many outside observers actually think it is because of a lack of intelligence. The apes and simians, who are good cousins of humans, spend most of their time climbing up trees, swinging, and pretty much having a good time. Humans, of course, view this as lack of intelligence because man has achieved so much: War, the internet, and Pepto-Bismol. Apes think that they are far more intelligent for the exact same reason.

Those who are mean, as previously stated, are actually those who are miserable. They take out their misery on those that they are envious of, or those that happen to get in their way. Those who are mean tend to view the world as always out to get them. This was recently proven false, when a man who held this viewpoint was carefully observed for several days. His trackers eventually concluded that most of what had happened to the man was actually coincidence. Further studies were planned, but had to be cancelled after the subject was struck by a falling piano.

Those who are “happy” are so rare in number that it was almost thought that they did not exist. For the most part, happy people are so unorthodox that they are labeled as "freaks" by those who are mean and/or miserable. They are often sent to live in exile, usually in suburban housing. Those who are "happy" are very odd, because it is unknown how they became this way. One said “happy” person could in one morning burn his/her toast, stub his/her toe on a door, contract a case of the measles, be hit by a bus, get a rather unpleasant phone call from his/her mother, and still be smiling by lunchtime. It is thought that these oddities view the world through an optimistic lens. This is rather curious, as no other category of human behaves in this manner. It was so curious in fact, that “happy” humans have now been labeled as an entirely different species. They are now dubbed by the scientific community as “happy-sapiens.” ^[1]

There are many different categories of people, ranging from the meanest of the mean to the most depressed of the deprived. There are also people who make the best of a world that throws them to the ground and stamps them repeatedly in the face.

Such is the inexplicable nature of the human condition.