What is empty has no content.
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 inside a container.
It is possible to say that a store is empty, referring to the fact that at a certain time there are no customers in its facilities. In this case, its meaning should not be taken literally, since for a premises to be truly empty, the employees should also leave it and make sure to remove all products and work instruments.
Emptiness as a feeling
Emptiness is also a human feeling that is characterized by apathy, alienation, boredom and depression . The person who experiences an internal emptiness feels alone and may 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 gap is left, an empty space. In this sense, the feeling is part of the usual process of grieving.
For Eastern cultures, emptiness can be positive since it is associated with a state of fulfillment. In the Western world, however, the concept appears linked to depression or anxiety .
Existential emptiness is linked to alienation and apathy.
The 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 calling , to a reality that demands us from the depths of our being and that is so difficult. to avoid as to follow.
Historically, human beings have searched for a reason for their existence, a reason to justify their time on 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 capabilities, and brings us closer to other people who have similar affinities to enrich us through cultural exchange and joint experiences.
But very few people discover their calling, and even fewer follow it. Although it is not a rigid phenomenon , it is possible that those who spend their lives without finding their own path have not received adequate intellectual and emotional stimulation, or that they have made bad decisions from a very young age, the consequences of which have clouded the rest of their lives. 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 foreign to 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.
fill the void
The daily 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 crumble at every step: eternal bills to pay, exploitative employers and luxuries that They will never arrive, they are some of the daily elements of a life of this type.
Those who live their passions daily, on the other hand, usually find in them a refuge from the economic crisis, political confrontations and the size zero fashion . Worldly interests matter little to those who are fortunate enough to be 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 makes 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.