Equivalent Exchange

"People cannot gain anything without sacrificing something, you must present something of equal value to gain something." If this sounds familiar then you've watched FMA. The law of equivalent exchange, to gain with sacrifice. If only that rule were true in all we do. Imagine, if you pour your heart and soul into something you would gain something equal to that. For instance if you tried your best on a test, then you get a grade equal to your work. This logic statement is correct only until you add more variables to it.

As in FMA, the Elric brothers in thier journey to restore thier bodies and they come to discover that maybe the law is not true for all. People can work hard all thier lives, yet gain nothing in the end. If our world acted true upon this law then everyone would not have to worry about studies or anything. Just equal work for equal grade. I can name many times when I've tried so hard in things and I hoped for the best, but in the end I ended up being disappointed. We also see that some people who do nothing gain everything without hard work. People who are born into rich and privilaged families can do nothing for the rest of thier lives. Where normal people like me have to work and sacrifice to gain. Its sad to see in this world that there are people who can do nothing yet gain so much in the end.

One instance is this one guy in my precal class (I have many enemies in that class =(.) It would seem that he has already taken a pre-cal class, in another country, and was placed in the same class in the U.S. Now pretty much every assignment he does nothing, but for tests he pretty much gets an A. Now I've never once got an A in that class for any test and I pour my heart into everyone that I take. Yet heres this guy who does absolutely nothing, yet gets what I want. *Sighs...well I guess in our world there are people who work hard and those who don't.