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While texting a friend to see what they were up to, I asked the question; “Whatcha doin?” The response I got was; ”Nothing”! This sent my cranial grey matter into a major whirl spin; my deep cavernous mind was filled with the echoing of the word ‘nothing’ bouncing off the walls in every direction… NOTHING-nothing-nothing-nothing!
You see that’s impossible! You can’t do ‘nothing’! You’re always doing something, even if it’s only breathing, that’s something, and a very important something too I might add! I’d really like you to be breathing when you text me back, please and thank you! And thinking too! I need you to be breathing and thinking when you text me back, no dead texting allowed!
That’s not to say you can’t text me WHEN you're dying, that would be ok! Your fingers are supposed to be moving and you're still breathing so that’s alright, and it would make me feel kinda special too, but as soon as you DO die, please stop texting! R.I.P. means ‘REST IN PEACE’ and that includes your fingers and cranial grey matter too!
I’m not kidding either!
So anyways, what prompts people to think that they are doing nothing or have nothing to do, I wonder? There’s always something going on, boredom doesn’t come because you have nothing to do, it comes because you can’t do what you WANT to do for whatever reason! But once you do step into that great vacuum of boredom, you only think and feel you're doing nothing, but that in itself means you’re doing something, you’re doing two things, thinking and breathing!
Oh wait… you're thinking, feeling AND breathing, and maybe even drooling a little because you’re bored and sitting still, [/ezcol_1half]so that’s four things you're doing and just goes to prove my theory that there’s always something, you’re always doing something!
Let me take this a step further, the word nothing is derived of two words… ‘no’ and ‘thing’, just as the word something is derived from two words too… ‘some’ and ‘thing’, they are both… things! So nothing is something… it’s a word if nothing else, but it’s still a something! Something can never be a nothing however; it’s always going to be something!
Even when things are going bad for you, when nothing seems to be going right, and you proceed to tell someone about it, what do you say? “Nothing is going right, it’s always something”! WHALLA! You’ve just proved that nothing is something, and if nothing is going right, then something must be going left; by all means go left, that’s where you’ll find… something!
If my friend had texted me asking what I was doing instead, I wouldn’t have said ‘nothing’, I would have said that I was half naked dragging my ass across the carpet like a dog because I didn’t cook my burger long enough and I might have worms! What can I say, I'm a horrible cook!
I understand that not everybody thinks like me but… wha…? what the…? Alright… I heard that, who said “Amen”? Sheesh, just trying to help you find something so you won’t keep thinking there’s nothing, there’s always something!
~Snarp
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