The Value of Nothing

It all began with a riddle: "What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, rich people want it, poor people have it, and if you eat it you will die." This riddle stumped us for days. Like with all riddles, its answer revealed a basic component of life we often take for granted. The answer was "Nothing". In this harried life, we are all in a frenzy to have more, do more, say more, be more. We don't take time to stop and appreciate the value of nothing. We would all benefit from learning the value of doing nothing, saying nothing, and feeling nothing. The Value of Doing Nothing. To say that we are all very busy is a gross understatement. People work hard to squeeze as much as possible into every minute of every day. Even our children are overwhelmed with school and sports and music lessons and play dates and so on and so on. It is not often that we stop and bask in a few moments of nothing. Try it: take 5 - 15 minutes one day to unload and unwind. Allow yourself to be free to think of nothing and do nothing. Recognize there is a big difference between the doing nothing of watching TV some part of you is still engaged) and the doing nothing of sitting in a dark quiet room alone with your thoughts. It is like working on an older computer when you have 5 - 10 applications open. You are jumping between applications, sharing data, saving information, using more and more of the computers resources. On many older machines, all of this activity would eventually overwhelm the computer