What is Nothing???

Nothing.



Shunya!



The absence of anything. Not a thing. What could be simpler and more straightforward? Actually, it's pretty complicated. Nothing is seldom really nothing.





For a totally pessimist guy, this nature is nothing. But for the nature that person is something because the nature gives him air to breathe in so that he remains alive.





Nothing is not something that actually is never nothing, but it is individual perceptions that make it to be nothing. Nothing is the best form of non-committal reply that seldom catches you on the wrong foot.



Nothing is nothing until you view it as nothing because this nothing could be something to someone and absolutely nothing to some others and nothing is always nothing if you want that to remain nothing. If you could understand something about the nothing I have just written.



Zero is often mistaken as nothing. But this nothing suddenly becomes everything when it is attached at the ens of any number increasing its value many times and this zero could still be nothing if it is used before a number.



You would think that they could at least get it straight in mathematics. One of the first things they teach you is that zero is nothing. Right? But as soon as you grasp that concept, they tell you that you can have less than nothing. Huh! So "nothing" must really be something, simply because it's greater than less than nothing. Still gives me a headache trying to figure it out.



And forget about physics. Physicists, in attempting to calculate the mass of the universe, are quite determined to prove that "nothing" must really be something, since they can't find enough "something" to add up to what they consider to be everything. Confusing? Irrational? Just remember that these are the same folks who say that nothing can exist in a vacuum. Guess they never emptied one.



The Nihilist considers everything to be nothing, while many Buddhists think that achieving nothing is everything.



If you're religious, you believe that God created everything out of nothing. If you're a taxpayer, you are constantly amazed at the ability of our politicians and bureaucrats to create "nothing" out everything you worked so hard to earn.



And isn't it odd that where you have your "nothing" is important?



If you have nothing on your mind, that's a good thing. If you have nothing in mind…well, you're undecided and probably open to suggestions…and that's not bad. If, however, you have nothing in your heads, that's not so good at all, in fact, you probably won't understand a word I've written.



Folks who have nothing up their sleeves are honest. But if they have nothing in their pockets, they're broke. If you have nothing on your plate, you're not hungry; you're just not busy.



Not busy? More confusion. Doing nothing is quite restful, while having nothing to do is downright boring. Go figure that one out.



When someone offers you something for nothing, beware. You'll find that nothing can be very expensive, indeed. And when you buy something on the installment plan, "nothing down" usually means a heck of a lot later.



Perhaps the most confusing thing about "nothing" is its use in normal conversation with the people who are closest to us. To fully grasp it's meaning you need to be part psychiatrist and part mind-reader.



Ask a teenager what he or she did during the day and they'll typically respond, "Nothing." That innocent "nothing" could mean anything from accidentally blowing up the chemistry lab, getting a perfect zero in his exam, or knocking over the neighborhood kids.



And "nothing" means different things to different sexes. When the woman in your life seems angry or depressed and you ask what's bothering her and she responds, "Nothing," you can safely assume that she really means that it's everything…about you. And when she tells you that she wants "nothing" for her birthday, you can be sure that the "nothing" she wants had better be made out of gold and be encrusted with diamonds.