You Don’t Need A Reason To Do Anything

Paul Cantor
2 min readMay 22, 2018

Recently, someone asked me why I had done something.

“What did you hope to get out of it?,” they asked. “What was the purpose?”

I thought for a second, having not really considered why exactly I did it, only that I did.

Then I said: “There was no desired outcome, no finish line to cross. I had no expectations — I guess I just felt like doing it.”

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Paul Cantor

Wrote for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vice, Fader, Vibe, XXL, MTV News, many other places.