'What are we?' sounds strange because the moment you say so some one would correct you to ask 'who are we?'. Isn't it a pity that even in such a clueless situation when your whole identity is unknown instead of answering your question you are in fact asked to correct it? 
Have you ever tried to decipher human behavior? the things we do? the reasons behind the things we do?
We are the most complex being not in terms of intelligence and practical behavior, well you would find various theories in support of this statement. There are many individuals who walk upon this planet thinking or even singing that 'nobody understands them', other than that a sturdier theory is that there are so many layers to a person's behavior which makes it pretty impossible to understand them. Though many claim, they can get as many details possible on a person at first glance but is it really possible because there's another theory on how a person's behavior differ accordingly with the different people they are with. Its not only hard its almost impossible to exactly study or predict this behavior. 
We feel so many variants of emotions and have as many ways of expressing it. We have a habit of brooding over for hours or expressing a variety of thoughts over things or events which hardly took minutes to pass. We are judgmental, we are experimental, we are emotional, we are intellectual, even philosophical, but more significantly we are all "cowards" because all the ways that we eventually look upon to are one or another form of providing a vent, an escape from the situation. It may sometimes be a direct escape to something entirely new or sometimes a kind of escape where you except the scenario but decide to do nothing about it but to escape from it by performing the part you most like about it - sing a song about it, write a poem on it or vent your frustration through any other creative art.
No doubt this cowardliness and our affection towards escape has lead us to some of the greatest arts there exist. A writer finds his escape from the real world into his books, in the same way as other artists like singer, painter, poet etc find their own escape in their own respective arts. And if there are such wonderful ways and such beautiful place already exists where you can escape to, then why be brave and face the stupid misery?Cheers to 'Cowardliness' ;)
