Why I Knit

OK, so it took longer than a day to get back to this blog. I can protest that I have been occupied, and was unable to fit it into my overflowing schedule, but that would be a falsity on the grandest of scales. However, I have promised you that I would answer the question "why do I knit?" The easy answer is: I knit to prove that I exist. This may sound absurdly abstract and pedantic; however, after much thought, I am going to stand by it. I feel that a person's existence is proven only by the result of his productivity. I know that Descartes would disagree with me, and I don't care. A person whose life does not create anything, who has no product attached to his existence, can be said not to exist at all. Just for the record, I recognize thoughts and ideas as products, so long as they are documented and communicated (in which case this blog is another proof of my existance.) I am currently in a long stretch where my professional life results in no product, as I have either been unemployed or a server for the last year or so. At the beginning of this period, I found that channel surfing for 8-12 hours a day only empahsized my non-existence. My blog-surfing took me to several knitters' blogs (they are prolific bloggers) and I grasped it as a means to resurect my existence. Two years later, and it has become the main source of my ratioanlization that I exist. I assume that my rabid existentialism will persist, even if I eventually come to find another activity and product to occupy my time.