Nothing is Something!

Remember the Degrassi Zit remedy song? "Everybody wants something, they'll never give up." The trend of society today is everybody wanting something and they never give up, a car, a  house,  more clothes, more furniture/decor for the house, to be on top, to be beautiful, to be ageless, to be immortal. When there is so much want, it can be stressful and so there is more hatred, greed, jealousy, violence and crime, suicides and war.

I started reading "Tuesdays with Morrie" and it was really inspiring. The man was dying yet he is quite positive about his situation. He has a disease that slowly cause his body and limbs to break down and lose function on them yet he manage to keep an uplift spirit. He says " It's only horrible if you see it that way...It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time I get to say goodbye."

Wow! That is wisdom. So perhaps having nothing is something. Because when there is nothing, there is potential to have something but we do not want that something. We want nothing because nothing is that opportunity for change. It  is the opportunity that  allows everything and anything that is possible. For example, if a writer needs to write a story. He needs to start from a blank page or nothing before ideas come and get  recorded. What about homeless people? They have nothing yet they are in so much suffering? The nothing I am referring to means the nothing that comes after your basic necessities of life have been met such as food, shelter, clothing.

Monks and nuns have nothing and they seem perfectly content. But don't they have peace, love? Isn't that something? Great peace and love is the product of having nothing. Nothing = no possession, no fear, no worries, no anger, no jealousy, no greed, no hatred, no attachments...no problems. When we have so much something, it clouds our minds from clarity, wisdom.

Wisdom is like the mirror of a lake. It is crystal clear from surface to the bottom. No residue, no suspended solids. When there are storms, waves and ripples, we can not see through to the bottom and it becomes clouded like when we are too busy at life that we forget about living it. We suffer because we associate life with having many something and we value something as normal and valuable.

Sometimes..actually I think society or norm thinking is nuts. Yes. NUTS! Ya, I said it. I have Big urges to go opposite to it. Hell, perhaps that is the answer!!! Do everything that is opposite of what the majority of the world thinks. Lavish eating = eating simpicity, Big house = cozy place, luxury car = midsize/small or walk/bus,  eating meat = vegetarian/vegan/raw, eating fast food = eating whole food, buying brand clothes = buying warm clothes, having children = no children/adopt/pets,  etc. Well, what if what the majority of the world do is positive, peaceful, loving? Then what will you do with your idea of going opposite to it? I would say there is no problems therefore no need to go opposite to it :)

Something to think about.