What is Your Nothing?

"Can you let the dogs out Jaymie?" my mom asks from the kitchen.
"I'm busy right now. I can't!"
"Oh, what are you so busy doing that you can't let your own dog out?" she demands.
"Nothing." I quickly replied.

Our definition of nothing has drastically shifted.  The actual definition of nothing is "no thing."  But you can never really do nothing.  If you really think about it, you are constantly doing something.  Breathing, talking, watching something, thinking.  The list is endless.  As organisms we are always living.

When we text people and ask them "What's up?" or something along those lines, our normal response is "Nothing." We never go into detail and say something like, "Oh you know just sitting on my couch, texting and thinking why the sky is blue." That would just be to much to type in one text, plus way to detailed for a text.  Is it that we have just become lazy and don't want to say what we are doing so we say nothing?

Our nothing's really aren't nothing anymore.  Its just our way of saying that we are to busy to say what we are really doing.  Could it be that our nothing is really our something now?  When we say we are doing nothing we are obviously not doing nothing.  We are talking just then.  Every second of the day we are thinking about something.  There is never a time when our brains aren't busy doing something.

We can always say we are doing nothing because it isn't important enough to go into detail of what we are really doing.  Or the action we are doing is embarrassing.  There are many reasons that we say we are doing nothing when we really are doing something.

My mom starts getting a little irritated.  "Your doing nothing? Then let the dogs out, now!"
"Mom, I said I was busy."
"Then you said you weren't doing anything. So go let the dogs out."
"I'm busy having a conversation mom!"
"Then why didn't you say that in the first place?" she asked.
"Because it wasn't that important."