"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
"Dreams change. Friendships slip away. This is difficult to process. It seems unfair. IN THE END, NOTHING."
"NOTHING IS GOOD" Kyka Martiniano
"In throes of nothing, commitments end at the 20-second horizon line. It could almost be called pure spontaneity, except any action you undertake requires such little use of the neocortex that it can hardly be called an activity. All you care about in this world is the music that’s playing, a little bit of gossip, and the lazy conversation that circulates.
It took me not to long to figure out how awesome this is. How great the connections you can build are. To do nothing is to become vulnerable to someone. It is to cease to try and control the direction of the conversation, to let it float into the unknown territories of your soul and see what happens. When you do nothing with someone, you can start to understand who they really are.
To do nothing is also a vote of confidence in your self. It is the belief that you will be able to stop doing nothing, to re-engage the gear. It is the moment where you say that your affairs are in good enough order that they can be forgotten for a while.
Sometimes I just go sit at the park, watching the people stroll by. I remove myself from the world, I become a passive observer for a few moments, kind of like when you do any kind of Art. I make up stories in my head about the people passing by, let music wash over me. In nothing, creativity flourishes. In nothing, simplicity survives.
This is the Wonderful Art of Nothing."
