There are certain concepts that we just can’t really grasp until we experience them first hand.

• We don’t really understand the value of a dollar until that first month when we have to pay all our own bills.
• We don’t really know how to worry until we have kids.
• None of us really value our health until we get sick or injured.
• And it takes crossing into middle age for any of us to really get the gist of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

In case it has been awhile since your last chemistry or physics class, let’s review what that Second Law is. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that “The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.”

Okay, let’s try again.

When you are in your teens and twenties thi…