Create For No Other Reason Than To Make Your Soul Grow

In2006, an English teacher of a New York high school tasked her students to send a letter to their favorite authors. All but one, the admired 20th-century satirist Kurt Vonnegut, ghosted these students. Vonnegut couldn’t have imagined that <a href="https://www.esquireme.com/brief/kurt-vonneguts-incredible-viral-letter-to-students-will-make-your-day" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">his simple reply</a> — perhaps the last thing he would write and share, as Vonnegut would pass away just six months later — would blossom and inspire countless souls for years to come. We never know the impact our smallest gestures will have. His words convey a human soul near the end of his life, inclined to leave the world better than when he entered it. <blockquote> “I thank you for your friendly letters,” Vonnegut began. “You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” </blockquote> This, I realize time and time again, is why you create — in fact, it’s why you do anything at all — not to reach some end goal, but because the act itself will change you. I’ve been feeling happy lately. It’s a byproduct of taking some pressure off, but also of working on something which I care deeply about. <a href="https://medium.com/writers-blokke/create-for-no-other-reason-than-to-make-your-soul-grow-71a9c17464df">Read More</a>