The Void

Emptiness.

There are several ways to describe the lack of something, whatever it may be. A space left blank, a chunk broken off something, whatever it may be. But that broken piece, once gone, can never be replaced. The same appearance, feel, the appropriateness of the missing piece can never be restored.

Man has never been a lone being. His or her survival has always been like a dependent equation. It depends on society. On people. On others. There are many variables surrounding us. In the crowd of those variables, some attach to our equation like an addend, a subtractive, a multiplicand, or a divisor. That is how it has been, and how it always will be. So, quite obviously, we will have a few people who matter, those people who will be there for you. And one among them who will make it seem like they are a part of your very soul. A part attached to your being, a part dissolved into the immortal part of the self, on this very mortal world. And one day when you wake up, you find that part gone, lost, replaced.

By a void.

What does the lung do without the air canal?

What does the tree do without water?

What does a fish do without water?

What does the heart do without blood?

The feeling brought upon us by the void is uncanny. You won’t know how to explain its existence. You won’t be able to define how it feels like. There are even instances when we don’t believe it is there. But at a point of our lives, we feel it. We feel it so intensely, that our insides scream. There are times when we are so overpowered by the void that we are rendered inactive. It’s there, and we’ll know it. We just won’t accept it.

What do we do about it?

One word. Relapse.

What do we do if we break a hole into our house wall? We try and fill it up with something that looks like it, something to hide the fact that the hole is there. Something to make it seem to the people who look at it, that it’s not really there. And one day, that replacement is going to fall off, break apart, or rot away, and the hole is going to reveal itself.

Emptiness can never be filled if it is neglected. If a lamp is broken in your room and it leaves a dark spot, you don’t ignore it, but you embrace the fact that it’s there and you try and fix it. The void is only going to worsen if you ignore it. The only way to overcome that void is to accept it. Try to realise that it cannot be filled again in the same way. If there is a large hole on land, it might not be possible to fill it up with the same missing portion of land. Instead, if it is filled with water, it becomes a lake. And that isn’t so bad now, is it?

Life is definitely going you have a lot of peaks and voids. If there has ever been someone who has disappeared from your life, and has left that void in it, do not try to ignore that emptiness. Try and accept that emptiness into your life and fill it with a whole lot of joy and happiness that will certainly not replace that person, but will help you make the most of that space.

Emptiness- it only gives you room for more.