There’s a song that claims that the number one is the loneliest of all numbers. I don’t know who it’s by, or how it goes.
I’m here tonight, before I go to bed, to tell you that it’s bullcrap. Zero is easily the loneliest number, certainly more so than one. Zero is such a lonely number, it’s not even technically a number.
So I guess you’re wondering why I’ve made that claim? Simple:
- how do you feel when you have 0 new messages in your inbox?
- how do you feel when you have 0 new voicemail messages?
- Or perhaps 0 matches from last night’s speed dating event?
- Maybe there’s 0 friends in your friend list online?
- 0 people interested in you?
- 0 funds left in your bank account (and you have 0 friends, coincidentally)?
Some people don’t mind seeing zeros from time to time, because they have all kinds of numbers to play with. But imagine a life where zero was the only number to present itself. No matter how hard you worked or tried, zero would be the only thing you’ll have to show for it.
Some poeople go their whole lives only seeing zeroes, so much so that they begin to believe that they themselves are nothing.
The thing is, when you’ve been around zero for a long time, suddenly one sounds and feels a lot better. You become a lot more appreciative – and happier -when you have just one.
As was mentioned in the song Just Be Good To Me (another tear-jerker), would you rather have a piece of something, than all of nothing?
Zero is a lot lonelier than one has ever been.
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