Nothing

I don’t really believe in the concept of nothing. There’s really no such thing as nothing. If you cleared off a table of the plates and flower pots leaving a clean wood surface and asked me, what now? Is there nothing on this table? I would have to reply that there is still dust and skin particles and molecules of moisture and air and germs upon the surface. What if a man walked into the room wearing nothing, what would I say then? He would still be wearing something – primarily a grin, I’m sure. If you ask me if nothing is there, isn’t it nothing? I would have to reply that by saying nothing is nothing then it has just become something. People say they have nothing, but simply aren’t counting their blessings and paying attention to what they do have. A paraplegic says he can do nothing with his arms and legs, but this too is false, he may not do a lot, but his arms and legs are still lying down or hanging or touching other things. You can’t poke a needle into a numb arm and say “I feel nothing” without being more specific, because you do feel things, just not in that particular spot. Not only is it perspective, but the adjectives used to describe this “nothing” come into play as well. If you are being prodded with said needle you can say “I feel nothing in that particular spot” however you could not say “there is nothing in that particular spot”. Upon saying “I feel nothing in that particular spot” you are using many words to describe the definition of numbness, which is something. If we were to use the example of “say nothing” you are in the act of being quiet and silent and therefore in the act of something. Perhaps nothing is equivalent to nonexistence and therefore dinosaurs and dodo birds are nonexistent. I agree that they are nonexistent as living creatures in today’s time; however they are not nothing because they used to be something. The death of a creature that has reverted to Mother Nature’s soil and been dug up has not left nothing in its hole, there are still something’s, just no trace of the original creature. And still the memory of the creature may exist or photos or illustrations and therefore the creature is something because it was something. I don’t doubt that there are still chemical reactions in the soil proving the existence of some deterioration as well.

The concept of nothing cannot exist, because there is always something to take its place.