nothing
The weather is freakish this year. Probably caused by El Nino or some other weather anomaly. But who can tell. I suppose we could listen to a hundred people prattle on about the cause being some such thing. But what truly matters is the effect. And the effect is that we have strange weather. I know I know: what the hell am I talking about, what does this have to do with anything... But it does. I suppose you could call it an analogy. I have discovered that the effects of nothingness are far more important then its immediate cause. For some time I have wondered what it would be that could cause nothing. People use nothing in such an everyday context that they honestly never stop to wonder what nothing truly is. The absence of all things. I mean it is possible surely to have none of a variety of things. But we have yet to achieve absolute nothingness. Why? Obviously if there exists something there must in turn exist it's opposite. But where? Which led me on a mental roller coaster. What makes nothing? Can something altogether produce it's opposite? And if there is nothing how does it exist? Only something's can exist, or perhaps they are not the only things that life troubles with the burden of itself? And then I thought well nothing does exist. between every electron and molecule of our atmosphere there exists nothing. So within everyone of use nothing exists. It is present at all times for every something there is a nothing at it's borders. There is nothing between me and the air around me. There is nothing between this keyboard and the desk it touches... The rest of the questions I have yet to answer, except to say that perhaps nothing is not so bad as we project it to be. Perhaps nothing is even better then something.