Blank. Nothingness. Empty is the feeling we all try to escape; and we usually do quite easily. We can escape it by going for a car ride. We can escape it by just thinking alone. Yet every once in a while some of us let our minds go to blank. We let our thoughts drain to the point of nothingness and we lay still for a moment.
Some people think nothingness is depressing. It’s like if they feel nothingness that they themselves are nothing and therefore worthless. Blank. There’s obviously no use in being blank. Or is there? If you’re blank, doesn’t that make a lot of room to fill in? Hmm…It does. What was a painting before the artist put brush to paper? Blank. The artist then determines the quality of the painting. You are the artist. So stop using a paint-less brush and put structure on the canvas, some foundation and then some color. Then you can create your own colorfully filled self. It’s not half bad looking at it like that, is it?
If you’re not depressed from the blank in your life; you are more than likely embracing the nothingness because you have to much paint on the brush. Too much stress. So wrapped up in your own little world that you just can’t see the big picture; so you go blank and enjoy it.
Life is a canvas. Paint your own picture. There’s always a way out to get a good look at it.
I need more paint.
by Jarrod Michael Stibolt
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