This is about nothing

An article about nothing. Which means, of course, it’s about everything.

Every day I try to write something, but nothing has come to mind these past few days. Maybe that’s what happens when you have ADHD? It becomes difficult to think creatively — or be creative at all. Everything just stops, and it’s like I’m trying to push past a wall I can’t get through, no matter how hard I try.

Ironically, maybe it’s my seasonal summer depression? PTSD? I don’t know.

I think after all these posts, we know that I don’t know anything. Yet I know everything when I’m writing about something I’m passionate about.

This is about nothing though.

How do you write about nothing?

I suppose it could be about a multitude of things, or it could be nothing at all. It’s almost like that saying: if a tree falls in the woods but no one was there, how do we know it made a sound?

A user on Reddit once shared an article with a beautiful observation regarding that theory, one that could also be extended to me, writing about nothing:

“Everything we experience — everything we see, hear, smell, touch, taste — all of it depends on our sensory apparatus, on us. Without us, our experiences would not exist.”

From what I’ve gathered, to write about nothing is to deprive any sensory experience. That’s philosophy for ya. Basically, I’d have to write nothing — but I can’t just not write anything. So how does one write nothing?

I guess I could just go from one topic to the next.

Yesterday, I did nothing. Literally, nothing. I rotted in bed and on the couch. I tried making new content but failed. I did nothing.
But actually — I didn’t do nothing. I ate food (taste). I used perfume (smell). I pet my dog (touch). I looked at and heard everything (sight and sound).

See? I can’t even do nothing. How do you write nothing?

If I thought of nothing, it would be the word nothing. Maybe the letters would be transparent. Maybe nothing is just a blank page.

But in a VICE article, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Sean Carroll explained that nothing can’t be something — because it is nothing. In science, he says, “true nothingness” is different from “empty space” because even empty space has little zero-energy guys not doing anything.

So technically, this article isn’t about nothing because, through whatever device you’re using, those little zero-energy guys are probably present. Plus, if this was truly nothing, you wouldn’t be able to read it.

What I’d want to know is: how do you define nothing?

Is it the absence of everything?

Is it simply not doing something?

Is it a lack of meaning?

A blank space?

A pause?

Yesterday, I felt like I did nothing. But I didn’t — because I was simply being a human.

Nothingness might be a concept. But you? You’re real. You’re doing something, even when you think you’re not. And that counts.

I started this thinking it’d be about nothing.

Maybe nothing is just a quiet form of everything?

Either way — thanks for being here, doing something, even if it doesn’t feel like much.

Until next time,

Kaylirose 💜✨