A soul is something we have every now and then.
Nobody has one all the time or forever.
Day after day, year after year, can go by without one. Only sometimes in rapture or in the fears of childhood it nests a little longer. Only sometimes in the wonderment that we are old. It rarely assists us during tiresome tasks, such as moving furniture, carrying suitcases, or traveling on foot in shoes too tight. When we're filling out questionnaires or chopping meat it's usually given time off.