Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for May 30, 2016
Transcript:
Why does toast always fall butter-side down? It doesn't. Humans are just disproportionately likely to remember sad events over happy ones. This is why it's so hard to be happy. Even if the toast had 20 surfaces, only one of which was buttered, you would still perceive it as always following on the butter side. Look upon the butter-down toast and despair, for it is the shape of your psyche. It'll be okay if I just scrape off a little butter. I too was once young.