Something and Nothing

Before you read any further into this post, you should probably read this post by Mikey J in the Morning titled “Nothing.”

In the post mentioned above, Mikey J was able to blog about nothing, not just rambling, because that would be something. Instead, he was able to blog about the concept of nothing. In addition, he was blogging about something when he was blogging about nothing. A concept, even if that concept is nothing, is still something. Nothing seems to only work as a concept because while nothing is supposed to be nothing, it, in a way, is definitely something. If you tried to define the words something and nothing without using a dictionary, you might have trouble thinking of something to say about nothing.

You have already seen a blog post about nothing, so, there should also be a post about something. Something, as defined by the MacMillian Dictionary for Students, means “certain thing not specified or known.” This reinforces the fact that something is something and the fact that nothing is something too. Nothing is a word, and because a word is something, that makes nothing something. Well, I got on the track of nothing again, so it is about something, how nothing is something. Not how I intended it… Oh, well.

Back to the topic of nothing, nothing has multiple definitions in the same dictionary where I got the meaning of something, the first definition was “no thing; not anything.” Not much to say about that one. The second definition is “no part or share.” I don’t have anything to say about that either. The third definition is “obscurity or insignificance.” This definition isn’t really nothing, the thing that you could call it is seemingly nothing, which is still something, whether or not it seems like nothing. The fourth definition is “that which is of no value of significance.” That is still something. The fifth definition is basically “absence of existence.” Absence is still something, but it is also nothing. The final definition however is zero. Zero is nothing, yet like the others, it is also something.

It may be hard to believe that someone would be wandering around pondering what to write about nothing for two hours, but it happened. If you think this is confusing, I know it is, so please don’t complain.