Nothing

There have been times when I've assigned a class to do a free write. Sometimes I'd give them a specific topic. Usually it would be pretty broad to allow for creativity. Inevitably I would have a student who either didn't want to write about that topic, or just didn't know what to write about it. Or there would be someone who said they didn't have anything to write about. So, I would tell them to write about nothing. So, I thought I'd see if I could write about nothing. For example, let's say the given topic was "What I did this weekend," from the viewpoint of a high school student.

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Nothing

When I got out of school on Friday, I was hoping for an exciting weekend. Normally the weekends are pretty fun, and I keep pretty busy with things like work and hanging out with friends. Well, this weekend I did absolutely nothing! On Saturday morning, when I woke up and tried to think of something to do, I couldn't. All of my friends were gone all weekend, so I couldn't go to their houses or go to the movies with them or even call them and talk on the phone. And I usually work on the weekends, but my boss gave me this weekend off. You would think that with all that free time, I would watch tv or a movie, play video games, or maybe actually read a book. But no. The tv is broken and I read enough during the week, so I didn't feel like it. Instead I did nothing! That's right, I sat on the couch and stared at the black tv screen, ocasionally getting up to eat something or go to the bathroom. Fun weekend, huh?

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That's hard. I always figured that if they started writing about how they did nothing all weekend, they would realize that there was at least a blip of activity in their life over the past couple of days. Anyway, there's my strange experiment of writing about nothing. I didn't have anything pressing on my mind and found myself thinking that I had nothing to write about. And so I did.