It is the year 3009 and I am one of the few of my kind remaining. We call ourselves the Remnants- the only survivors of the Human Race Refinement Program(HRRP)- a program designed to deal with negative human emotions especially human sadness on a global scale.

Though it was called a refinement program, there was nothing farther from the truth than that. It was more of an adulteration program as my great grand father would often say.

As I read in one of the old books, he had in his secret archives(since the world had gotten rid of all papers and replaced them with electronic slides), there was a time, the year 2085 to be precise when humanity was so immersed in depression. Global depression.

Different people and professionals had different names for the condition but the one that became so widespread in use was the one the clergies called it- the sickness of the soul.

Psychologists did all they could to help. They wrote books on and about it. The had different therapy sessions with different subjects. They did researches. And got tired.

Clergies prayed and called for global prayers. They preached and spoke from their pulpits of how the problem was God's way of punishing humans since they could not leave their sinful ways to turn in repentance to God. Some people were moved by the messages preached, felt convicted after much condemnations that were borne out of deep soul searching and turned a new leaf.

People stopped drinking alcohols. People stopped smoking. Some stopped partying. Some stopped frequenting porn sites and sex bars. Some denied themselves every form of pleasures. Some even became hermits- leaving the life of high civilization and all the things that go with city life to sneak and live humbly in rural and poorly developed areas. All to avoid falling into the temptations and fighting the regulations urges that push one to satisfy the 'flesh'.

And after all these and more, the sadness did not stop. It went deeper and deepee. People got more depressed. Psychologist said that human happiness was no longer found within the human soul but now in all the external fancy things we had. The technologies. The fast cars. The rich and glamorous life. The fame. The beautiful women. The sexual energy that the entertainment media releases. And even more.

Everyone failed to find a way out of this problem until Healiath Medics showed. They were silent for years and waited until the world had gone beyond redeeming itself before they came to the scene. Some said, they were studying and working on getting the cure. When the came on the global scene, they sure had the cure and the audacity to call any other suggested solution a bluff.

'Saving lives' was their motto. And they did save lives except that they saved us from something to bring us into bondage to another.

When they started, they acted so confident and left us all without any need to ask them if they knew what they were doing. People wanted results. They wanted happiness. Yes, happinesses. It was so scarce all over the world. It was one things everybody was looking for. And Healiath did not fail to give them the happiness they had been craving for even though it was via unethical means.

Happianol. That was the drug. The drug that changed everything here. It was the drug that a tablet of it would keep you so happy for a whole day. People were asked to volunteer for testing, and many rushed to have it tested on them. People were tired of their sad lives and it meant nothing to risk giving one's self for such medical tests.

The result was shocking, just having to watch a deeply depressed man walk in, take the tablet and suddenly, just suddenly get so excited and happy- exceptionally happy few minutes after taking it.

Without proper and due process for drug approval and certification, the World Health Organization was mandated by the United Nations to declare the drug fit for human use and to mandate Healiath Medics to produce millions of the drug on a global scale.

Few years down the line, the year 3009, the world has seen how bad what seemed good at first really is. Everyone is so attached to Happianol now. Or don't you see that? It is everywhere.

Humanity is all drugged. Drugged. It is an addiction on a global scale. And to make matters worse, the drug had tampered with the human DNA and all the coded information needed to synthesis hormones that are required for one to grief.

People go to funerals happy these days. They loose their kids happy. They witness a disasters happy. They laugh at rapes and genocides and terrorisms. Humans have grown insensitive to things that used to prick us and make us grief and sorrow. Everyone is so etched on being happy.

Some clergies and one of the human rights groups- Hope Foundations have been persistently asking the United Nations to put a ban on the drug production and have Healiath sanctioned for her crimes against humanity.

But the sad reality is that some of these people pushing for this, are hugely hooked to Happianol. Goverments of nations are hooked too. A country in Asia used the drug to run a political campaign and won.

I am one of the few who hasn't for once, sued that drug. And there are just few of us. We are the Remnants. Are you one of us? If yes, stand with us. Fight with us and save humanity.