Excerpt from the “Almost Complete Guide to Temporal Capers, Paradoxical Shortcuts, and the Question of Whether the Past Is Even Reliable,” 2nd revised edition
Emptiness
Noun | /ˈemptɪnəs/
The state between two states. A space containing everything that is currently not happening.
It is rarely truly empty – mostly just unoccupied. Neither lack nor failure, but a kind of temporary stillness. Many find it unsettling because it demands nothing yet allows for everything.
Caution: Don’t confuse emptiness with boredom. Boredom demands attention.
Observations show that emptiness tends to expand in closed systems. The longer it lasts, the more it stretches into conversations, calendars, and universes. Eventually, it develops gravity.
Common confusion: Emptiness and loss. The former is a condition, the latter a judgment.
Recommended antidote: none.
Why does emptiness exist? Was there any intent behind it?
Some god of aesthetics, wanting to be in before avant-garde was invented — “Hey, this looks cooler if there’s nothing in the middle!”
Was Hamlet right — does it all come down to “to be or not to be”?
Is emptiness the same as nothingness? Even if it defines everything that is not nothing?
Do we need emptiness to recognize all that isn’t it — is it not only the space between things but also their edge?
Many questions – best to test it.
Take two things, say, two pages of a book — is there something between them?
Well, that depends on whether you’re more of a Hamlet or a Schrödinger type.
Fact is, neither of them could open the book to find out if… something inside is alive or not — if there weren’t the emptiness between the pages, the space between letters, lines, thoughts.
Emptiness might not help us fill space with meaning, but it defines everything that is not emptiness.
So is it the beginning or the end of things?
Cosmologically speaking, emptiness is never truly empty.
And in the Space World, the Space itself is a mysterious field of possibilities that would disappoint Schrödinger.
Nothing to see if you look — but if you don’t, if you step in trustfully, a multiverse opens.
Question to go:
Do we fear emptiness because it reflects nothing — or because everything it can contain is ourselves?
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