Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

" A Lesson without pain is meaningless, because you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But, once you endure the pain and overcome it, you will gain a heart that is stronger than anything else. A Fullmetal Heart." ~ Edward Elric the Full Metal Alchemist.

The past few days, I had been chionging the above anime. Its about alchemy and things like that. Basically, it revolves round a law called Equivalent Exchange, which basically means one gain and lose something of equal importance. A really apt way to describe life and in many ways, the ways of the universe.

I think this idea is pretty existant in many things that we studied. Like in Accountancy, We must always debit one side and credit another ledger. In Economics, we have the concept of Pareto Efficient, at a particular allocation that one cannot gain something without causing another to suffer a loss. In Phyics, with Newton 3rd's Law, where there are 2 similar magnitude forces but working against each other in different directions. Hence, this is definitely a trait that we as humans actually have. The art of receiving and the notion of sacrificing.