equivalent exchange

"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." — Alphonse Elric, from Fullmetal Alchemist.

i wonder if that's true and if it is the one and only truth.

in life, in order to get something that we want, we need to use money to purchase it. to get money, we need to work for it. in order to work for it, we need energy. in order to get energy, we need to eat. and so on and so forth... we get something we want by giving something up. EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE. there's nothing in this world that doesn't have a price tag on it. even if you say that the air is free, we need to take good care of it and not pollute it. EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE. something of equal value must be lost...

you can never bring a person back from the dead even with all the technology nowadays because a human soul can never be replaced with anything. a human life can never be bought. in forming human life, there are stuffs that a man and a woman should give up. we do not create human life, GOD does. EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE.

ever since the day i heard that line from fullmetal alchemist, i have been thinking about somethings that doesn't need equivalent exchange. something that i can gain without giving something up. until now, i haven't thought of anything at all. zip, nada, none! EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE. i have put that line in mind everyday and some people would just have to tell me again and again, "sacrifices are to be made... konting tiyaga lang..." i'm tired... dead tired. i know i haven't been working half as hard as the others but i don't care. i don't care about others, all i need to care about right now is myself. that sounds so selfish, i know. but in order to care for others, i should take care of myself first right? EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE. where am i going?

i know that sacrifices are to be made because of that conservation of energy. nothing can be formed out of nothing. everything in this world is physics, chemistry, biology... in short, science. everything has a reason. and the unexplainable are miracles, religion and GOD.

in love, you can never get the person you love if you are not of equal value... "to obtain, something of equal value must be lost..."