EMPTY

From the Latin vacivus , emptiness is the lack of physical or mental content . The term can be used to refer to the total absence of matter in a space or the lack of content within a container.

It is possible to say that a store is empty, referring to the fact that at a certain moment there are no customers in its facilities. In this case its meaning should not be taken literally, since for a room to be truly empty, employees should also leave it and make sure to remove all products and work tools.

Emptiness is also a human feeling that is characterized by apathy, alienation, boredom, and depression . The person who experiences an internal emptiness feels lonely and can suffer from various types of emotional disorders.

The feeling of emptiness can develop from the loss of a loved one; When someone who occupies an irreplaceable place in our lives dies, a hole remains, an empty space. In this sense, the feeling is part of the normal process of a duel.

For eastern cultures, emptiness can be positive as it is associated with a state of fulfillment. In the Western world, on the other hand, the concept appears linked to depression or anxiety .

The existential emptiness and vocation

If we refer to the etymology of the word vocation , leaving aside its relationship with the history of religion, we will see that it refers to a call , to a reality that demands us from the depths of our being and that is so difficult to avoid how to continue.

Historically, the human being has looked for a reason for his existence, a reason that justifies his passage through this Earth . The vocation is precisely that reason; It opens up a universe of possibilities for us, tempts us every second of our lives to continue learning, to explore our capacities, and brings us closer to other people with similar affinities to enrich ourselves through cultural exchange and joint experiences.

But very few people discover their calling, and fewer still follow it. Although it is not a rigid phenomenon , it is possible that those who spend their lives without finding their own way have not received the appropriate intellectual and emotional stimuli, or that they have made bad decisions from a very young age, whose consequences have clouded the rest of his days.

However, for many the vocation appears during the tender subject : children who dazzle their elders with drawings of a technique and precision apparently beyond their knowledge, or who remember complex melodies and reproduce them musically without having received any training, are some of the most common examples of early vocational awakenings.

The day-to-day life of a person without a vocation is exhausting, since it consists of fulfilling a series of obligations that are not to their liking and living with a reality that seems to be crumbling at every step: eternal accounts payable, exploitative employers and luxuries that they will never come, they are some of the everyday elements of a life of this kind.

Those who live their passions on a daily basis, on the other hand, usually find in them a refuge against the economic crisis, political confrontations and the fashion of size zero . Worldly interests matter little to those who have the fortune of being able to immerse themselves in their own dimension, where external threats have no place. On the other hand, the relationship that human beings strive to establish between vocation and work make the lives of many artists very difficult, who struggle to make their creations profitable, often neglecting their authenticity and, what is worse, enjoying less and less of the creative process.