What is Nothing

Actor 1: Hey babe, what do you think the man next store believes in?

Actor 2 (“Babe”): Well… nothing.

Actor 1: How could one not believe in anything?

Actor 2: No no dear. Not nothing… but nothing.

Actor 1: Babe… you’ve lost me…

How in the world could he not believe in anything?!?

Actor 2: You still are interpreting nothing in a literal since. Think of it as… a feeling more than emptiness
or well it actually meaning that he doesn’t believe in anything.

You must see it in a more… psychological, more, deep into emotion kind of way… like you think
of yourself as...

Actor 1: …wait-wait-whoo. I believe in many things. I believe in our love, I believe in a God, I believe I’m
happy with my life. What do you believe in?

Actor 2: well… I believe in all of that too, but I see his perspective on believing in nothing.

Actor 1: baby!! I don’t understand how you can understand his not believing in anything!!

Actor 2: Dear, you must understand this first. Believing in nothing doesn’t mean that you literally don’t
have any beliefs but that you believe in the nothingness itself.

Actor 1: What?

Actor 2: Sweetypie!! Come downstairs.

Actor 3: yes mom?

Actor 2: do you know what it means when someone believes in nothing?

Actor 3: Yeah, you mean like the man next store?

Actor 2: Precisely! How would you explain this belief?

Actor 3: dad doesn’t understand does he?

Actor 2: no…

Actor 3: Father, you can’t look at everything like it means exactly what it sounds like.

The belief in nothing doesn’t mean that you don’t believe in anything at all but that you believe
in the concept of nothing.

The concept of nothing being an emptiness, almost as if when your in the dark and unable to
see anything… but yet you have to look at it in a way that you see space where there literally is nothing,
or to see nothing… in darkness.

Actor 1: you and your mother confuse me, how can you see space where there is for a fact nothing. Or
even to be able to see nothing! It just can’t happen…

Actor 2: continue!

Actor 3: The belief in nothing is not related to any physical thing but yet the absence of all physical
things. Kind of like a belief that you don’t have anything to live for but not because, you are living in a
shadow of a brightened world. You believe that in the world, people live for things they hope for but
when you believe in nothing, all of that is gone but the nothingness left behind is what you live for or…
you choose to not live for…

(Women’s yell)

Actor 1: That sounded like the man next store’s daughter!

(Sirens coming)

Actor 3: It’s the man, something happened!

(Curtain)