"There is no free lunch" ~ Unknown

The exam stress is beginning to takes its toll on me. I find myself less and less inclined to do work, even though I know I should be. I have been caught in a slump of sorts, and everything seems to be declining as a result...so I pray in time I find the necessary will to pull myself out of it.


In the meantime, I figured today we'd do a quote thats very simple: "There is no free lunch". I personally have NO idea who was the first person to quote it, and if you search wikipedia you will find aplethora of variations on the theme...but I figured I'd just take the simplest one and run with it.


SO, 'There is no free lunch'. If we look past what its saying literally (There is literally, no free lunch...unless you go eat in one of those soup kitchens for the homeless, but thats a different case) you will find it is merely saying 'You cannot get something for nothing". 


Think about it: In real life, you cannot get anything without an equivalent trade. You cannot eat food, unless you lose money somehow. If you eat for free at charity, you have to expend energy in order to walk to the soup kitchen and whatnot. And if you eat by having the charity deliver food to your doorstep...then I really have no idea what to say about that. But I'm assuming most people understand what I'm getting at.


The point is, to acquire something of great worth, or of great value to ourselves we must expend an equivalent amount of something in order to get it. It is important to emphasise the word equivalent here. Too many people get hooked onto scams, get-rich-quick schemes with the belief that will really make them rich very easily. The truth is, if it is so hard to scrounge a living as it is, what are the chances that there really is a scheme to 'get-rich quick'? 


This is a very simple quote...there isn't much to dive into today...and the work is starting to pile on so this blog will suffer. But ah well...when I do get free time, I will attempt to update this MORE often...for now though, everybody'll have to suffer through some very short articles...


Once again, anybody who reads this, your comments will be appreciated. And now I have to go back and read about Endodontics!


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