Something Out Of Nothing

Did the heading of my blog sound a cliche or it sounded something unconvevtional.Whatever it may be. Today I have thought of writing something which is contradictory to the general norm & views expressed by society & tell me if you find this to be unacceptable .But to be very frank I can't help it as this is an idea whose time has come & I think no one can stop it from being put into suitable words.

Don't know when this idea suddenly fell upon me out of blues "That nothing can be more powerful than nothing itself".It is like saying adding 1 to infinity.I guess I was quite influenced by the following incident which happened in my college.

It was an interview which was conducted for an MNC in campus & being a software company there was no limitation for the non comp science grads to apply for the job.Please be informed that even if our college is one of the top notch colleges in the country we didn't have that much exposure to the software world & it's intricacies. So a general question was thrownin interview to all & sundry who came from different branches other than comp. science, "WHY SHOULD WE RECRUIT YOU??".Since it was a very subjective question with no definite answer(Though people mugged up the answer & made the answer look like an objective one),it elicited very intresting answer from guys & girls alike.So here was a guy who out of smartness or whatever you may feel like when confronted with this question gave the following answer.
He took a plain paper & a written paper with a loads of formulae written over it.Then told the interviewer "Sir,see the plain paper. It is totally blank. You can write anything you want to write on it.But what about the paper with all these written materials.Can you write on it.Whatever is there it is already there.So we people from non comp science are like blank paper.Whatever you are going to train us will be imprinted in our mind.But it will be very difficult for the comp science grads to absorb as fast as we do."

No doubt that guy got selected.I happened to be the witness to that incident & after that I forgot about that as the time passed by.

But it cropped up again recently while chatting with a friend & I thought "is something more important or nothing"????.No I am not talking about materialistic pleasures.Forget that.We have a lot of other things to worry about other than materialistic pleasure(People who are overtly materialistic in their approach can execuse me ).In every other field don't we find how nothing is far far important than something.Start from nothing & you are bound to get more than something.See the canvass being more wider when you talk about nothing.No constraints at all for your imagination.Your imagination moves mike an well oiled wheel.You feel like a free bird.Innovation is at it's best when you start from nothing.I remeber reading soemwhere "The things which you see are temporal & the things which you don't see are eternal".Extend that to something & nothing.Something is tangible,you can feel it & you can touch it,you can see it.But nothing is intangible & you can't feel it & you can't touch it either.So which is eternal.Nothing or soemthing???
So time has come to give due recognition to nothing & let the old saying be replaced with "Nothing is better than something"

P:S:-Dedicated to all those who were the inspirations behind this writing