Finding the Joy in Nothingness

Life is full of voids in time. I prefer the word ‘void’ for various reasons. One, it is ambiguous and two, it resonates after you say it. But what is a ‘void’ really? After doing a quick Yahoo Dictionary search I came up with these key phrases and words:

Containing no matter; empty.
Not occupied; unfilled
Completely lacking; devoid
An empty space

True, a void can contain those sentiments. But it can also be an empty space filled with the joy of nothing. Because within nothing I get a chance to know myself a bit more. Voids are full of alone time. So what can I do to occupy the void besides trying to get out of it? Well, I could do something like write a few nonsensical words on an internet Blog. Or I could go for a walk and think about how the nothingness can overtake me. Or I could just do what the void wants to do and sit there in an empty space trying to contain no matter.

That is physically impossible of course. Nobody has the ability to contain no matter. We are, therefore we contain. But is it possible for a brain, or even deeper, our souls to contain no matter; to be unfilled and completely lacking?

No, I don’t think so. I think that just thinking about not thinking about it is in itself fulfilling the empty space. So what to do with such a quandary?

Well, what I have come up with is this. I must find joy in nothingness. If I were to douse myself with the predictability of pessimism I would enter dark voids. And voids don’t have to be dark. There is a joy in nothing. There is something to be said of time off from the reality of reality. I assume that those who seek transcendental mediation are on to the same thing. Within nothing I am providing my soul with the chance to see things that were once unseen. To hold onto those things and keep them for the period after the void is of utmost importance.

If I take nothing from nothing then it becomes dark. It’s not dark now. It can be. It has been before. I am not talking in code. I am sounding off. I am purging to an audience of one or none.

It doesn’t matter. What matters is that we all have something to say; even we see it as infantile or irrelevant. If it is in your brain, get it out of there. And if you want to stay in a void, go ahead. Just be conscious of the darkness and allow yourself to see the joy in nothingness.