A Paper about Nothing

Should not be writing a paper about anything we want be a college students dream? Students constantly are asking to be able to pick their own topics for paper because it gives them more freedom. Then why is it that whenever I get to choose a topic for a paper I cannot think of one. After putting off this one page writing assignment for a few days now I decided, why do I need a topic? This can be about whatever I want to write about so why not write a one-page paper about nothing? It’s like the old television show Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld came up with the idea of having a show about nothing, a show about daily life, and now those same kind of television shows are some of the only one’s that we see nowadays. So if he can make a television show about nothing, why cannot I do the same thing but with a paper?

Reality, a word that means the state of things as they exist. I like to think of it as my daily life. The reality of today can be completely different from the reality of tomorrow. Today my reality is finishing this paper, eating dinner at some point, and worrying about my best friend driving through the snow. Tomorrow, and for the next week is going to be finishing up my school work for the rest of the semester and studying for exams, not caring about too much other than what the end of this semester holds. These few weeks, although it may be classified under the nothing Jerry Seinfeld talks about would not make a good television show. The reality we see on television and the reality we live with on a daily basis are different. The reality of television is an exaggerated, made-for-entertainment reality where there is some truth to the day-to-day workings but it’s not what you would see in a normal household on a normal basis. Even the Kate Gosselin and the Duggar Families, their stories are edited and shorted to fit in an hour on television where the crew could easily be filming for a few weeks for that one episode. I sometimes want my life to be as entertaining as it is on television but if it was, I would be a fake. There are moments I believe my life should be a sitcom but sitting in my dorm room typing this paper is not one of them. So can a college student write an entertaining paper about nothing? I think I will let you judge that one.