Our "Nothing" Writing Assignment

So Professor Pam handed out a fake writing assignment with two questions on it. 1) Why is there something rather than nothing? and 2) What is wrong it question #1? Thank goodness we didn't actually have to write an essay on that! But seriously, that was a very intriguing idea (and corresponding class discussion) for me. The point of those questions was to realize that there is a point when we need to stop asking questions. Not only can we not answer #1, but we Professor Pam explained that we shouldn't even ask it.
When I was growing up, sometimes I would think about what the world would be like if I wasn't born. From there I would move on to what the world would be like without people, or animals. Eventually I would think, "What if there was no earth...what if there was nothing???" (Yes, I regularly had these thoughts as a child) Trying to think about absolute nothingness would give me this weird vacuum-like feeling inside as my mind tried to grasp that concept, which is why, actually, I had this mental conversation so often because I thought that feeling was so overwhelming. I couldn't even picture "nothing." We talked about it in class, because nothing is only understood as the absence of something and we can only comprehend it in context to what we know.
So I won't ask anymore why there is something instead of nothing, but it definitely was fun trying.