When I was in school I had read an article titled “Kya Likhoon?”. The whole article revolved around the subject - the writer said that he wanted to write, but he did not know what to write. He went on to take up different subjects and explain why he could not write about each of them. In the end he had ended up with a 3 page article on why he could not write about anything!
I had laughed then thinking that if he had so much to write, why did he ask “Kya likhoon?”. But today, I know what he must have felt when he wrote that article.
At 1 am, with my ailing son in my lap, and the laptop on my side, I am dying to write something. Thrice I tried to take a topic and start writing in it, but lost the enthusiasm and interest in the subject after writing three lines.
So posts started accumulating as drafts as I abandoned one subject after another and I finally decided to write on nothing in particular. Why, everyone is capable of doing nothing, thinking nothing, saying nothing, so why not writing about nothing.
Nothingness is the most incomplete concept that has ever existed. Just like people claim that darkness is nothing but the absence of light. Similarly nothingness is only the absence of something that should ideally be . When we are not doing something , we say we are doing nothing. However, by doing nothing we are staying idle, which again is something, but that something is not a subset of the some things that we may call something, hence we call it doing nothing.
And by writing nothing, I am not trying to achieve anything.
Well all good things must come to and end. So my tryst with nothingness ends here as I go about doing something more concrete.
