2010

It's New Year's! And I'm alone in Vancouver! Which is, okay. I do wish I was at a party.

This post isn't relevant to anything I just wanted to quote something.

I've been watching an anime called Full Metal Alchemist  over the past few months. I believe it is one of the best television shows I have ever seen. Rather than rant on about why and how much I love it, I'm gonna keep this brief.

Set-up for the quote. 

The 2 hero's of the series are placed on an island and are told they are to live their for one month. They are given a knife and that is all. Two boys ages 8 and 10. Or somewhere around there.

Their teacher than says "All is one, one is all". She tells them to figure that out before the month is up or they would be sent home, rather than continue with their training.

Now I don't expect anyone to get this, or even care. This is just for my own personal note so I don't forget it. I also think the script for this show is damn brilliant, and could quote at least 200 words from each episode that I find are meaningful in some way.

This was prior to them trying to resurrect their dead mother through the process of alchemy, crippling both their bodies.

“If I died the world would continue to move along as if nothing had happened.”

“Because you’re just a small part of it.”

“When the small part, in this case me, dies, the body remains.”

“Water, Carbon, Ammonia, Lime, Phosphorous, Salt, Saltpeter, Sulfur, Magnesium, Fluorine, Iron, and Aluminum right?”

“Right. The bodies only a combination of those simple elements. Nothing more. We’re destined to be decomposed by bacteria, and become nutrients for plants, then you follow the process further, those plants nourish herbivores.”

“And those herbivores nourish carnivores. Even others like us. And even though we lose awareness our lives keep on moving through the system.”

“The great flow that maintains the universe, call it the cycle of life, the course of nature each one of us is just a small part of that part. One in the all. Yet without all the individual ones, the all can’t exist. This world flows by following grander laws that we can’t even imagine. To recognize that flow, to work in it. To decompose, and recreate, that is alchemy.”

The cycle of life only goes one direction, not even alchemy can change that.

~Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric~ Episode All is One, One is All from Full Metal Alchemist

Happy New Year's!!!