Monday, September 24, 2007
the anime freaks might be aware that in the fictional world of the fullmetal alchemist anime series, the law of equivalent exchange is the primary law that governs the practice of alchemy. It's an equation, stating that the output has to be of equal mass and materials to what you started with (aka input).
similarly, humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. to obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange.
"In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth."
i've spent 3 days stoning at home, lying on my bed, resting, and watching the fan blades cricle around as random thoughts filled my head.
someone once asked me why is it that some people are not scoring good grades for their examinations when they have been mugging 24/7 non-stop, while there are those who ace their papers easily when the amount of work they put in are far more insignificant.
we've always believed that hard work, effort and suffering that one puts into any task will be met with an equivalent reward. yet we've seen countless cases where people worked so hard and yet achieve little or nothing in return (kinda reminds you of linkin park's "in the end"), seen situations where no equivalency appears to exists.
if you ask me, i don't know what i can say either. i too dislike that fact that there are people out there who refuse to get their study engines going and yet score well for them exams. similarly in track, there're people who haven't trained much, but due to the occasional awesome luck of the biological draw, they have the talent and are able to run faster, jump higher or throw further than their competitiors who've probably trained more than them.
I suppose the world is just too complex for the law to apply to everything in life, too imperfect for one law to explain everything.
but we can still choose to believe in the principle behind it, that if we want something, we have to work for it.
if all else fails, then don't think too much and follow my number 1 rule:
just whack.
aaron | 9:32 PM
