I had wanted to 'blog' ever since I first chanced upon the word, not retrieving it in my cognizance though, I quickly looked it up - 'A shared on-line journal to post entries about personal experiences'. Wow! I'm so blogging. Seven years surpassed since then. Each day being either ridiculously mundane or unbelievably eventful. Those rare moments when I was indeed reminded of 'blogging' were several months apart, invariably accompanied by marvel at the dexterity of other bloggers and a consequent 'not yet' inhibition from within. So why now? How is this moment any different from the ones keeping me from penning down or rather keying down my thoughts? Here's how...while staring again at my 0 posts 0 views 0 comments in two years since I spawned this blog I sensed an unusually dire urge to write something, to blog. But wait! What do I blog about? After such dormancy, do I give an account of remarkable personal or public events, share my thoughts on common concerns or just write about ever pondered over abstracts. When these unrelenting ideas were conflicting, my gaze traveled to and rested upon the title of my blog...'just out of words'. That's when it struck me...Why don't I write something about nothing?
Why indeed? 'Nothing' is no thing and to write about, there should be something. But, them being complements, isn't 'nothing' that, without which is defied 'something'...'everything'? Philosophers and scientists from Socrates to Aristotle to Newton to Einstein and Hawking have played at defining or rejecting nothing. Both religion and science cite 'nothing' or 'not-being'(a term used by philosophers to avoid linguistic traps) as that, of which has been created 'thing' or 'being'. Modern quantum theory evidences that the universe is expanding. All the things we know ought to have come from 'something' or should I say 'nothing'. 'Nothing' has the tendency to become 'something'. For every infinite there is a bigger infinite to which there is a still bigger infinite. And all this infinity is exponentially amplifying into something. What is that 'something'? Is it 'nothing'? Also what preexists or precedes nothing? Is there another side to nothing just as we have a negative infinity?
Well I just created something out of nothing. Though I can't figure, how was I negatively blogging before I got down to blogging. Anyway, I hope the next time I blog, it better be about something.
Why indeed? 'Nothing' is no thing and to write about, there should be something. But, them being complements, isn't 'nothing' that, without which is defied 'something'...'everything'? Philosophers and scientists from Socrates to Aristotle to Newton to Einstein and Hawking have played at defining or rejecting nothing. Both religion and science cite 'nothing' or 'not-being'(a term used by philosophers to avoid linguistic traps) as that, of which has been created 'thing' or 'being'. Modern quantum theory evidences that the universe is expanding. All the things we know ought to have come from 'something' or should I say 'nothing'. 'Nothing' has the tendency to become 'something'. For every infinite there is a bigger infinite to which there is a still bigger infinite. And all this infinity is exponentially amplifying into something. What is that 'something'? Is it 'nothing'? Also what preexists or precedes nothing? Is there another side to nothing just as we have a negative infinity?
Well I just created something out of nothing. Though I can't figure, how was I negatively blogging before I got down to blogging. Anyway, I hope the next time I blog, it better be about something.
you don't seem to be "out of words" at all! gr8 start...keep blogging!
ReplyDeleteThank You :D, but, and correct me if I'm wrong here, you considered just one meaning of the title. If you look closer, which you might have, only choosing to use one meaning which makes me wrong at pointing it out to you. It is a 'double entendre'. I didn't mean only that by 'out of words'.
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