As The Mirror Breaks
Ömer Yiğit Çiner
Most meaning is created from nothingness. Meaninglesness is an inspiration for meaning. It is as we tend to fill the void we see. It is odd for us to even define nothingness. We pretend nonexistence exists. Perhaps we superficially found an antithesis to existence, who knows. No one has seen nothing, though. No one has ever seen zero. We have the word zero but we merely use it as a filter of perception. We pretend. We act as if zero exists.
Pick a point, it eats it up.
Its existence is a reference point for meaning.
Its existence is the representation of nonexistence … which is another existence, and it means that meaninglessness makes it possible for meaning to exist. Is that so? The irony between these definitions, don’t they show how it is all a made-up game?
Zero acts as another proof that god is derived from humanity, and we created a human with adjectives of maximums. It is still human. Do we know anything that’s not in reference or regards to humans? Can one think of anything that is completely unrelated to humans? And does the answer to that demonstrate selfishness and vanity, or is it out of our control? Then let’s say we let ourselves get consumed by nature, would that be useful in escaping this ‘human paradox’ … well that’s another way of perception with yet again a different reference point: nature. Then, no. Maybe nothingness or the state of nothingness is the zenith of perception but it cannot be reached. One could trick oneself to think it could be reached, but that is pointless.
In the heart of zero, would you know where you are? Or would you keep making stuff up to make yourself believe you’re somewhere?
Isn’t that what makes us human: we sleep, we dream; we begin the day, we think… The jobs, the media, the knowledge we seek: all cause a constant disturbance, or a constant non-emptiness of the mind. We avoid zero. We adore a presence, a busyness, a thought going in hundreds of different paths the whole day, an emotion, anything that is something for us to be bothered by.
Remember, meaninglessness is the eternal inspiration for meaning. Meaning-seeking is only an obstinate fixation of humans who refuse to acquiesce to the self-evident reality of zero (the real zero, not the one we pretend to know).