If you have studied much chemistry you know that solids, liquids, and gases have distinct properties with very few exceptions. One property of gas is that will always expand to fill its container. In other words, it takes up all of the room available to it. It is this distinct characteristic of gas that makes humans more like gas than either of the other two states of matter (I know, the other three if you include plasma).
For example, have you ever noticed that every one’s house has stuff in every room? The stuff can be anything. It can be useful like a desk, couch, or bed. It can also be useless like an exercise bike that nobody has used in three years or a bookshelf full of books that will never be read.
I have also noticed during my experience as a tax accountant that it doesn’t matter how much money you make. You will spend it all one way or another. In fact, almost everybody spends more than they have. I’ve seen clients that make twenty times as much as I do that have just as much cash at the end of the year as they did at the beginning. I think to myself, “Surely I would be more prudent if I had that much money.” But would I? Or am I so much like gas that I would still spend it all as quickly as I do now?
Do you live your life gaseously?
