More is Less

A friend just called and shared his thought with me about the Jewish people eating manna in the desert. G-d ordered everyone to take exactly an "omer" [an ancient measure] of manna every morning to fulfill their eating needs for the day. Lo and behold, read what happens next:

And the children of Israel did so: they gathered, both the one who gathered much and the one who gathered little. And they measured [it] with an omer, and whoever gathered much did not have more, and whoever gathered little did not have less; each one according to his eating capacity, they gathered.

So some guys saw something that looked good and tasted good, and definitely made them feel good so they figure, I'll take just a little more... and a bit more. The end result was that more was not more... But it gets even better, consider the next verse:

And Moses said to them, Let no one leave over [any] of it until morning. But [some] men did not obey Moses and left over [some] of it until morning, and it bred worms and became putrid, and Moses became angry with them

So, here more becomes less... I have a good time, I want to stay longer, I want to enjoy it more, I want the bliss to last forever. Well my friend, it's midnight and you just turned into a pumpkin... More is less.