Dillard recalls what a woman recently told her, "'Seem like we're just set down here...and don't nobody know why."' What do you think this saying means?

Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life. Is it strictly biological, an accident of cells clumping together to form life? Is there nothing more? Yet, with all the thousands of years that humans have asked this question, it still seems as if "don't nobody know why." Is it fate? Is there a "creator?" The old woman was saying that no one really knows for sure