30 Reasons why someone became a monk.

1-He was caught stealing and the choice as a first offender was to become a monk or lose a hand.

2-He had religious dreams that led him to accept a monkish life.

3-He was dropped at a monastery as a baby.

4-A popular preacher persuaded him to become a monk.

5-He caught a disease that made him lose his sight and being a monk is better than being a beggar.

6-He wanted to create beautiful religious manuscripts, so he became a monk.

7-The King suspects the monks are doing bad things and this monk is in fact an undercover agent looking to see if the rumors are true.

8-An ex-soldier who did bad things in the past, he became a monk to save his soul from going to Hell in the afterlife.

9-He hopes to become an abbot someday but to be an abbot you have to be a monk first.

10-He wants to help the sick and poor so became a monk.

11-The country is a theocracy and monks have a certain amount of political power which was why he became a monk.

12-He is near death and wants to die as a monk.

13-He wants to join the Inquisition and fight heresy but only monks can try to join the Inquisition.

14-He was bewitched into becoming a monk.

15-He was a king who was overthrown and joined a monastery to avoid blinding or execution.

16-He was the illegitimate son of a monk and chose to join his father's monastery.

17-He became a monk to avoid conscription into the army.

18-He was once saved from being beaten or worse by a monk trained in karate and became to become one himself so he could rescue those in a similar situation.

19-The monks in his area have become lazy and corrupt so being a monk is a way to an easy and lazy life.

20-He wanted to become an undertaker, and, in his country, it is the monks that carry out that job.

21-Monks are the only ones in his country other than the royal family and the nobles that are allowed to learn how to read and write and he wanted to become literate and not risk execution or hard penal time for it.

22-He once in his youth secretly did a deal with a demon and he hopes that by becoming a monk he will not go to Hell in the afterlife.

23-He genuinely thinks that the sometimes hard life of a monk is the best one to have.

24-Only monks can legally become wizards and learn magic, which is what he wants to do.

25-Being a monk is better than being homeless.

26-After he and his girlfriend broke up, he developed a hatred of women, so joined a monastery so that he would not have to see any of them.

27-His dying father asked that he became a monk.

28-Everybody in his country has to spend a year as a monk in a form of religious conscription. The few who are genuinely suited to the religious life become full-time monks, but most don't.

29-He (wrongly) thinks the world will soon come to an end, so became a monk to save his soul.

30-He committed murder and his death penalty was suspended as long as he became a monk and a good one.