Why Am I Here?

"Who wants to become
a writer? And why?
Because it's the answer
to everything.
To "Why am I here?".
To uselessness.
It's the streaming reason
for living.
To note, to pin down,
to build up, to create,
to be astonished at nothing,
to cherish the oddities,
to let nothing down the drain,
to make something,
to make a great flower
out of life,
even if it's a cactus."

Enid Bagnold
1889-1981