Thought from a land far, far away (England)

So Janine Morgan, on of our professors here, has been introducing an idea that has really stuck with me. The existential void. That space that is empty in life. The time between class and finding someone to eat with. The blank pause which hovers in the air between the end of work and going to sleep. The moments you feel alone. Don't you feel it? What are we doing then? Are we filling it with filling-less things? Have you ever thought of facebook and email, t.v. and food as not just wastes of time, but ways of avoiding the feeling of emptiness in this 'void'? That the feeling of desperation to find someone to be with, something to do, is trying to fill up the space? Does anyone else feel this? Maybe this is nothing new to anyone else reading this, but I'd never really been aware of it quite so specifically. Everytime I am in-between activities, I am now aware of the void; it has been named. Janine was prompting us to fill the void with what truely fills. What would happen if everytime we bump into the void we met with God? Hmm...