The Void

We live looking at the tips of our toes. Sometimes we look a little further down the road and on rare occasions, we lift our eyes completely to look at the horizon. We look ahead to the future and back to the past. We think, we analyze, we strategize... we evaluate our life and our actions, we ponder what we do and the results we get. We take pride in our successes and learn - usually - from our failures.

On very rare occasions, as beings capable of greater abstraction, we take all this and look at it from a much higher perspective, at a time when we can evaluate our life experience as a whole... and then a question arises... Is this all? which comes to mean more or less our conscious way of trying to find value in our life.

I call it look at The Void. The problem is that looking at The Void, The Void looks back at you, a dark, cold look that infiltrates your mind, grips your soul and makes you doubt whether everything we have done has a purpose, pushing us to think about our own relevance as people, while we continue to struggle with that question.. Is this really all?

There are people who can't stand the look that The Void gives them back and it affects them deeply, questioning the value of their own existence, creating high levels of anxiety because it calls into question the purpose and meaning of their life. And believe me we've all been through those moments of panic, trying to look away while trying to convince ourselves that our day to day lives are enough to distract from that question.

Can this be fought? Yes. The quality of The Void is that, it is empty and therefore, it can be filled with things. Little things that give meaning to our lives, happy moments, situations where we reached out to help someone, intimate moments of joy... things that give purpose to our lives and bring a smile to our faces. So when you have a moment of panic - which we all do, you're not alone in this - remember all those little things that make you happy and make others happy. And The Void will go back to the corner where it deserves to be.?