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Good morning to another sweltering morning and hot day, hope where ever you are you are enjoying this heatwave that seems to be affecting not only us here in Croatia but elsewhere as well. Let's get down to writing today's blog, nothing how do you define nothing, does it mean zero in numerical terms, does nothing mean to non-believers as they look up at the night sky and think that there is nothing out there, I am not one of those people, I ask the question because if I do go anywhere and someone stops me to talk they ask me what am I doing and then when I answer nothing they laugh, but am I really doing nothing because I don't have a job which I go to every day or that I don't have livestock to look after or fields to plant and reap the harvest, I wonder. There's a simple answer to that and it is that in a way I am doing nothing that people would consider something, I actually do do something and that's look after the house and housework while my family are working, I wash and dry dishes, I put clothes out to dry, I cook when I am needed to, is that nothing I don't think so but if I answer to someone that then again they laugh which is their perogative so you see it's hard to define nothing. In the dictionary the definition of nothing is the complete absence of something, what does that mean, I have no idea. There are times when I do nothing physically but I am doing something mentally so am I doing nothing or not? That's the reason I am writing this in my blog because I don't understand what nothing is, if you had an empty bottle then you would say that there's nothing in it but there is, air so therefore it's not empty or you can't say there's nothing in it because there's nothing to see, I'm getting more confused by the minute so I'll finish for today as I'm getting a headache just thinking about it, well if you enjoyed nothing or something blog then like, follow and share. Thank you. 

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