Nothing to next..

Next to nothing. I have to be honest with myself. Do I have something after next? The answer is yes and no. If you are talking about others, or students for that matter, there are a lot of things after next. That could be the reason for their enthusiastic spirit in doing something. But there is an obvious difference between next in you and next to them. You are all spiritual as compared to their material quest. Your next could be life after death. But as for them the next is none other the future in terms of material happiness and that includes opportunities to move up in the hierarchy of society they are with. In short, the essence in the fundamentals are different. So it can never be next to nothing but there must be something, positive or negative, good or bad, nothing or not.