If you thought one had to say something really smart or dastardly to get into a conversation, you been wrong. Even a 'Pretty much nothing' seems startling enough to fill people with some sort of anxiety that makes them ask lots of questions unless the statement is contradicted; the longer they've known you, the more insistent they'll be. And this is something at our very core; there's no distinction between those who obsess over our lives - family, friends, teachers, aunti-jees.
Our society is built on factors of cooperation and reciprocity. I guess its unsettling for somebody to find me playing a zero-worth game - it leads to conclusion that either they end up the same, or they involuntarily end up being 'karmic'. So when I claim being redundant, people take measures: they will try to make my living feel worthwhile; or if my state of idleness poses them a threat they'll try uprooting me. Or maybe people do so because they try to establish that their lives are different and rather more dynamic. Or maybe they want to confirm that my definition of 'nothing' doesn't define their everyday lives.
It becomes difficult to realise when somebody is actually admitting to 'nothingness'. There rise fakers, since it has grown into a fad for the great conversational strategy it is. These fakers generally start with similar catch phrases, because:
# it ensures that their image can't be debased further
# so that it would be necessary to have a long conversation with them, and
# they will stage a revelation to hold you in awe of their latent grandeur.
To my kind of 'nothings' this tendency is purposefully asocial. But in the case of fakers, to the contrary, it shows the greatest desire towards being social. One can't really put their desperation to being inseparable from the society in any lighter and terse fashion. It is similar to an expression that a cog in the spring mechanism of a clock would use: without the other components of the clock its function is of little relevance and it is 'nthn mch'; it becomes worth only in a greater context. Similarly, those who make it their tagline are making a plea for greater involvement towards the common body of society. This is almost like asking for a mandatory communist setup.
One has to express a void to have somebody do the filling, the sociable creatures we are. Hello Sartre, Ridley.
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