Equivalent Exchange

A lesson without pain is meaningless.

Why do I say such a thing? Is that mean we should covered by pain when we learn anything?

No, it's not as simply as that. It is not  taken literally that any lesson which not bring us into some kind of pain is totally meaningless?

As we known there's another quotes said : " No pain no gain".

The words "A lesson without pain is meaningless" are similar to those words. It means that in this world nothing can be gain for nothing. We cannot gain anything we dream, anything we want, anything we wish we could get unless we give everything we could to reach the goal in life.

So it's exactly is " A lesson without pain is meaningless." But it's not ended here.

It's adapted from a japan anime, Fullmetal Alchemist. It's a fundamental law of alchemy, but I think it is sure is also standing for our life that "A lesson without pain is meaningless,

For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in equal value in return.

It means that all we want to gain need the sacrifice. It could be in form of thing but also pains and efforts.

Dewa Athena - OP

Though it has been too late to post, but it was February 21^st 2015 and it was Saturday. It was the day when SMAN 3 Bandung students was having an opening of the annual event called “DEWA ATHENA”. It’s been held for the seventh time. Dewa Athena is a interclass sport competition with various kind of sport including basketball, football, tug of war, relay, etc. Every class had to participate in every kind of sport. Besides, we didn’t just have to participate in the competition but also in the opening itself. It included into the sport lesson score.

It was been scheduled for us to be gathered at the Bali Sport Field at 6.15 WIB. The dress code for this event is white old shirt and black uniform pant. But for me, as the MP3 (Movie Production 3) member had to come there earlier at about 6 am.

The MP3 members gathered to divide the members into some groups to capture the moments at certain point. And I had to capture the moments at Aceh Street.

I don't really know what exactly happened on the opening of Dewa Athena. But it mostly the greetings from the chief executive of the event, Nissa Febriani the 11th grade student, the chairman of OSIS, M. Yasyril Mumtaz, and also from the headmaster of SMAN 3 Bandung, Mr. Encang Iskandar.

The opening was directed by the masters of the ceremony (MC) Firza Haikal and Nadya Rahmani! And right after the greetings ended, we continued with "run around Indonesia" and the most awaited...COLOR RUN!

Ghina, my partner for capturing the moment at Aceh Street has not had breakfast yet, also the run team will come in long enough time to eat, we was ended up having a breakfast before they coming. And right after we finished our breakfast, we went to the rendezvous point and we were just not waiting to long before a dozens people with white shirt came and kept running to the next point.

We just too exhausted to went after them so we decided to just walk joyfully back to the Bali Sport Field. And when we were arrived there, the color run had began. I was preventing from getting any paint on my jacket so I hid myself as far as possible from the crowd.

The opening was over. And next were the competitions.Our class, SEPADU SEPADAN had 4 competitions on that day. The girls futsal, the girls dodgeball, the boys dodgeball, and also the girl-boy badminton.

It was a great day although we only won a match. But it was really not a problem cause the real meaning of win is when we could get up from the loss.

DEWA ATHENA, FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT!