Life happened!

I once had a classmate with whom I used to do assignments. He was an incredibly pessimistic person who, apparently, didn't let himself find happiness in the world because it was in his knowledge and the world's capacity for it to be a far better place than it is, and the ignorance of the mass, or rather their choice to feint ignorance, is what is stopping it from happening. Most of our mutual friends thought he was just being stupid himself, but I think I understand his desperate anger. Leaving his view of the world aside, for that is not what I intend to write about and in my typical fashion I digressed before I even began writing, he once walked towards me and my friend slowly with his head drooping on his right shoulder. It was near the end of the semester and he looked like college had taken everything out of his being and my friend asked him what had happened. He replied, "Life happened". This was one of those abstract things that could come back at some later point and set my mind thinking vaguely about anything and everything. Needless to say, it did.