Life In The Void

Above all peaks
Is repose,
In the treetops
You trace
Scarcely a breath;
The songbirds are silent in the wood.
Only wait, for soon
You too will repose

Wanderer's Nocturne

Johann W. von Goethe

Try to imagine a dark empty space, where no life exists, an endless corridor. This is at least my idea of the void. I had always a great appreciation of what I (at least) call the void. How can something as empty be as scary at the same time. As I was doing my research about it I came across Martin Heidegger's writings on Nietzsche. A theory that I never thought before. Being as the void and as abundance. I never thought that by actually naming something or even by placing it somewhere (e.g. "the dog is in the garden") we give to it shape and existence. Being is the most elemental factor.
nihilism

n.

1. Philosophy.
   1. An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence.
   2. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.
3. The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.
4. also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.
5. Psychiatry. A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.             

  But for Nietzsche, the word nihilism means something substantially more. 

So I think it would be absolutely inspiring to search more the meanings void, nihilism and eternal. The oxymoron between empty and full, life and death.