Truth is a paradox. Absence, void, and emptiness most profoundly affect us. The silence between notes in a haunting melody, the blank spaces on a canvas, the gaps in our memories—all hold our power. Maybe nothingness invites interpretation and please don’t. We fill the gaps with our emotions, fears, and desires, illusions all. The unsaid becomes a canvas for our imagination. And in that space, there is vulnerability and resilience.
So, what gets us? It is not the loud, the tangible, or the obvious. The quiet, the elusive, the intangible—nothingness—leaves its mark.
e.e. cummings asks us to pay attention to what's hidden, what's unsaid, and in the absence of everything, discover something profound.
"What gets you is nothing."
"What gets you is nothing—
the quiet spaces between words,
the breath held before a storm,
the echo of footsteps fading into silence.
What gets you is the absence,
the hollow ache of longing,
the unanswered question,
the empty chair at the table.
What gets you is the unspoken,
the unwritten lines of a love letter,
the gaps in memory,
the spaces where dreams unravel.
What gets you is nothing—
and yet, it is everything.
For in those moments of nothingness,
we find the pulse of existence,
the fragile beauty of being alive."
-e.e. cummings.
Explore the overlooked—the spaces, the voids, the quietude. We skip for noise, which ensures we stumble in the dark of our minds' belief in illusion. It is in nothingness where we discover our most profound truths.