What interesting topic recently piqued my curiosity? What life observation made me grab my laptop? What did I learn the last few weeks I believed was share-worthy? NOTHING! Zilch. Nada. Zero. Bupkis. Nil. Zippo. Absolute squat. Nothing! That’s right…NOTHING is what I have to share with you!
After ten straight weeks of commenting on life’s curiosities, whims & oddities, holidays & events or life’s lessons, I get a Big, Fat GOOSE EGG from life!
“DISAPPOINTED!!”, as Kevin Kline’s movie character from ‘A Fish called Wanda’ shouted, when finding the contents of a cracked safe to be just that……nothing!
Every week, the anticipation of observing something unusual, entertaining or instructive, pondering it and allowing that specific “something” to swirl about my brain, coat my gray matter with said observation, then sitting down and writing about it, was a mental exercise I looked forward to with GREAT eagerness!
So today, since NOTHING came to me these past few weeks, what I have to share with you is, simply, nothing. And it quite possibly is nothing for one of the following reasons:
1. Brain was full…my “human computer” could NOT take another byte.
2. Wasn’t listening…don’t ask a woman about this option!
3. Needed a break…students get Spring Break, so why not I?
In any case, learning nothing is NOT easy. It takes a LOT of effort to come up with nothing. Nothing just doesn’t happen! SOMETHING might and ANYTHING may, but not so with NOTHING.
Interesting topic, this thing called nothing. I find NOTHING intriguing, actually, and the more I thought about nothing, the more I think there is A LOT of nothing to be learned.
For example, you may BELIEVE it, WANT for it, have it BETWEEN your ears, make MUCH ADO about it, put it down to buy a car, MAKE something out of it, yet find it NOT worth shouting about.
Nothing may be NEW under the sun, and it might not be much to write home about. You ain’t SEEN IT yet, however you may be AFRAID of it! Huh? Some people will stop NEXT to it and that’s probably because it STANDS in their way. It’s SNEEZED at, SPOKEN of, it’s VENTURED and then GAINED, it comes of itself and it’s SHORT of a miracle.
Consider this about nothing: you HAVE it, it’s TAKEN from you and yet you STILL have it!
There’s a joke where one guy enthusiastically says to his friend, “I just invented the zero!!” His friend asks, “What’s that?”, to which the inventor replies, “Oh, nothing!”
Maybe I had been thinking like the friend who doesn’t understand the SIGNIFICANCE of nothing, when I really could be as EXCITED about nothing as the inventor!
I mean, NOTHING is useful. It can fill a void, answer math questions, is deemed by many to be BETTER than good friends and it LASTS forever. So nothing, then, is a well-rounded thing.
Like the inventor in that joke, I have a new-found appreciation and excitement for nothing. For example…nothing is what we CAN do, what someone may be GOOD for, what we may be able to OFFER someone, it’s what we BROUGHT into this world and it is what we will TAKE with us when we leave.
So nothing, then, is RELEVANT and nothing is IMPORTANT. And that makes nothing VALUABLE.
NOTHING. It’s what I learned this week…and you CAN’T take that away from me!