Allow me to make an observation of a law of nature which has a profound life lesson.

According to the definitions that chemistry and physics give, “a vacuum is the absence of matter in a certain region of space.” When everything is removed from an area so literally nothing exists there, not even air, then we have a vacuum. The pressure is down to zero there, because there’s no matter. But because everything around it, outside of that space, is in normal physical pressure, so the vacuum attracts to itself the matter near to it. In other words: the outside pressure “pushes” the matter into the vacuum.

You can observe this in a vacuum cleaner. It has a fan which “pushes” the internal air towards the back of the vacuum. So, it creates a vacuum within the vacuum cleaner, provoking a reduction of pressure, which becomes lesser than the air on the outside. In this way, atmospheric pressure “pushes” the air (and dirt) into the apparatus – making it an easier job to clean the carpet.

You also see the vacuum in action in the packaging of milk, juices, and other items, where the absence of air helps conserve the food. Here’s an easier example: when you drink all the liquid from a bottle using your mouth at the end you suck out some of the air as well. What happens to your tongue? It’s pushed into the bottle, because the vacuum you created attracts your tongue in.

Very well, now the life lesson.

Just like the vacuum “asks” to be filled physically, every time you leave an empty space in some area (space) of your life, this emptiness will also attract something into it.

Let’s say that you’re a husband, so there’s a space that you should be taking up in your wife’s life, but you leave it empty. You’re an absent husband, so busy with your work that you don’t worry about her day to day, in short, you don’t give her attention. What do you think is going to happen?

First of all, a vacuum will exist. She’ll notice this in the way of feeling abandoned. She’ll feel jealous of the attention other people or things are getting instead of her, she’ll even doubt of your love for her, and so on. Then, first of all, she’ll have grounds on which to complain. “Pay attention to me.” “You don’t love me.” “You never have time for me, why do you work so much?” “Who’s that woman on your cellphone?” – and so on.

If you don’t change and the vacuum goes on because you’re a notion-less husband, who still doesn’t understand why she’s complaining, so eventually something is going to fill up that void. Your wife may stay longer at the mall, or want to get plastic surgery, or fall into depression, or perhaps even start to appreciate the attention of that guy that says hi to her on the internet.

Then it’s just a matter of using your imagination as to where it can lead.

What you need to understand is this:

1. Every space, has something that can occupy it
2. Good or bad things can occupy any space; normally it’s what’s closest
3. If you don’t fill the spaces in your life with good things, the bad ones will naturally occupy it

This explains the why behind people’s suffering and all the bad consequences in their lives. Now apply this reasoning into every area of your life. In your spiritual life, for example, you’ve probably already heard that human-beings have a space inside of them which only God can fill. The dissatisfaction of people who don’t seek God is proof of this. There are people who have everything but feel empty, and there are those who have nothing but feel full.

Think about the empty spaces you’ve left inside your life and in the lives of others that need you. Look to fill these voids with the appropriate things. Do this and you will eliminate a lot of problems from your life.

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