It's a scene from a movie called Dead Poets Society.

And this quote just really hit me, hit home.

And to kind of explain this scene, basically Robin Williams is a teacher.

He's teaching poetry.

And I think it's a boarding school.

And there's a bunch of kids around him.

And he's explaining to them you know these are kids

with ambitions they want to be lawyers and doctors and businessmen he's saying i get that right

but um here's why poetry matters right and so it becomes a metaphor for life essentially so what he

says is to quote from Whitman,

O me, O life, of the questions of these recurring,

of the endless trains, of the faithless,

of cities filled with the foolish,

what good amid these, oh me, oh life.

And the answer is that you're here.

That life exists, an identity.

That the powerful play goes on,

and you may contribute a verse.

In other words, with all the negativity, all the ups and downs, all the quote-unquote, you

know, terrible aspects of life, all the challenges, what good, why are we here?

What's the point?

And it's that it's gone on for millions of years before us, gone for millions of years after us, like a play that we can contribute one verse

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