# The Nothing Search

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-07-04

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I look inside, trying to find it.

When I find it, I realize there’s more.

So I keep searching.

Until I realize that there’s no “it” to find.

The “it” is the process itself.

It’s the question, not the answer.

Why I feel the urge in my belly to move on to the next thing, I don’t know.

Well, I do. Somehow, society has programmed me to never be content with where I am right now. I need relentless “progress” or else I wither and die.

But what if it’s the relentless progress that is a form of death?

Because the contentment with the here and now, the present, this moment….that’s really

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