I Am Because You Are

“Why am I?”

“Why are you what?”

“Why am I anything?”

“You have to be something, otherwise you just wouldn’t exist”

“But who’d know if I didn’t exist? I wouldn’t know. So I don’t exist for my benefit”

“I’d miss you”

“So I am because you are”

“Maybe”

Oscar has had his robot companion for six months now. He is still unsure why he has one, but has found it both helfpul