I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.