equivalent exchange

If you wanted something in life you must be willing to pay the price, that’s what I believe.
“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”.
I’ve been saying that for years. When I was young, I thought that that was the general principle for everything. That Nothing comes free.
After growing up, I found that equivalent exchange still applies but not to every aspect of the world. Some people can go there whole life without doing anything and get everything they want, but isn’t it because there family payed the price by working to making that possible. On the other hand, people that are born into poverty try to pay the price to get out of that life but some just can’t climb out of the hole of poverty. If the world revolved around equivalent exchange, then why can’t those people get ahead? How about when little kids are getting killed during a war, they didn’t pay any price for that they had no chance of buying out death.
I think that equivalent exchange still applies in this world. If you want to be rich then you must be willing to work hard and make it happen, or if you want a successful business then you must be willing to put the effort into creating that dream. Equivalent exchange even determines the little things. For example, a little while back I was hoping for a great weekend. I didn’t have to work nor did my brother, and that weekend went perfect, nothing went wrong it was fun and we did everything I was hoping we could do. But doesn’t that come at a cost too? Well it did come at a price the following weekend when I had to work every day and so did my brother, also on top of that I was super sick to. That weekend was horrible. Isn’t that considered equivalent exchange?
How about the people that spend thousands of dollars and many years of their life going to college, don’t they do that to be able to get the job they always wanted inst that equivalent exchange. You can also think of money as equivalent exchange because aren’t you giving up money that you earned to buy things.
Now I don’t believe in God or any religion for that matter, nothing against the people who do but I don’t. I believe in equivalent exchange. I think many people believe in this Law but many don’t know that it was the general principle behind all alchemy in the time when alchemy was practiced. Many people don’t believe alchemy is possible, and that’s fine because the first law of equivalent exchange is still widely believed, and when I was growing up just like many other kids my parents taught me that you must work hard for what you want. You must be able to pay the price.
In those days, I really believed that equivalent exchange was the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange does not encompass everything that goes on, but I still chose to believe in its principle: that all things do come at a price, that there's an end and a way, that the pain we work through did have a reward, and that anyone who's determined and willing will get something of value in return.

Why some can’t read

The point of school is to educate children for their future, so why is there is a ridiculous amount of high school graduates that can’t even read. Well there are a few things people seem to think is the problem. People think some of the major influences are the parents or the school or just the child themselves.
It might be the parents fault for not pushing there kids to do well in the classes. The parents just don’t care about there kids education and that affects the kids. The children don’t have motivation to do there home work, they want to do fun things and I don’t blame them. That’s where the parents come in and they need to push the kid to do well. Statistics say parents who read to there kids, when the child is young, will help the kid be a better reader in later life. Things like that help the child and make sure he or she reads when they are older.
Another cause of the child being illiterate is the schools just want to pass the kid just to get him threw the classes and get him out. And I have seen it even in my school. They don’t care about the kid they just want to move on and that’s unacceptable. Its there job to educate the children and when they don’t do that the kid loses his ability to succeed at life.
The last reason is the kids themselves, the kid just does not care about his life and thinks “I don’t need to read it’s stupid”. That motivation is just the thing to make sure the kid won’t be a good reader. So if one or all these things are the cause then the effect would be the child might not be able to read very well or at all.

after high school

After High School
What do I do after high school? This is what I had to answer my senior year in high school. It had to be a good answer to because it would stick with me my entire life; and at that time I had not thought seriously about it. I had to really think what my choices were, what would influence my decision.
I had not thought about what to do after high school until my senior year. So I had to decide and fast. If I just get a job, where would I work? Would it be good enough to support me? Unless I go to collage, and if I do that what do I go for? All these things I had to consider. I spend many nights staring at my ceiling contemplating this huge decision.
When I was thinking about this decision I would always come to the question. What would be a fun job? Because I want a job I like, not a job that I hate and never want to go to. So I took my teacher advice he told me to pick a job that has to do with something I like, and I chose computers. I already loved computers and when I took his class he furthered my love of them. He taught me things that most people don’t even know about computers.
So I decided I will go to college and I will enroll in a class that will teach me more about computers. This fall I will be a student at Western Wisconsin Technical College, and I will be in the program I.T network specialist, a perfect class to hone my computer skills. It’s supposed to be a hard class, but I think it will be more interesting then hard.
I had to make a decision that would affect my life, and I had to get a good answer in a short amount of time. The hardest choice in my life (so far) has been solved I will go to college, and I will hopefully get a really good job. I can thank my teacher, and my family for encouraging me, but most of all I thank my love for computers for this experience.