diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 58a7e05..def6add 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,3 +4,17 @@ Hy
 Lisp and Python should love each other. Let's make it happen.
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/paultag/hy.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/paultag/hy)
+
+OK, so, why?
+------------
+
+Well. Python is awesome. So awesome, that we have so many tools to alter the
+languge in a *core* way, but we never use them.
+
+Why?
+
+Well, I wrote Hy to help people relize one thing about Python:
+
+It's really goddamn awesome.
+
+Oh, and lisps are neat.