Banach's Response III & IV (Blog post #3)

What is happiness? and Are we free?

I think happiness is not something that needs to be explain because we are have different opinions, or more like, we are have different kind of scenario/imagination/image or what happiness is like. Like Banach said, we can't feel what others feel, we can only feel what we feel that is ours alone (okay, not really Banach said, I'm connecting to myself).

I don't think we are completely free because what our minds think such as wings, we cannot have them but an alternative. It is not exactly as we wanted but we created like that. Then because our essence for opinions are so strong that such as becoming a murderer is horrible and being in a different race (in the past) and different gender preference affects the society hugely. They want a "normal society", they don't want anything that goes against something (such as the bible) and that balance with the bad is not fun. We have so many things restricting us that we can only feel what we can feel (freely) in that little space of mind (that society thinks its good). However, however, there are people that fights against it. =D (way to go you guys!)

When Sarte said that we should think of Sisyphus as happy because in a way, it was his choice that he would roll the stone up the hill and the rest of the myth. But is he really happy because if he did defy the Gods, wouldn't he be killed rather than get a harsher punishment? If he did defy the God and won, what would he get in the end? Happiness? Isn't it because of the way we think, or what the creator of the human have given us this brain that help us think about the two sides, the good and bad of things before we actually do something serious like defying the God?

How are we able to get values from the inside, "The Existentialist's secret of happiness" when we don't know our values if all the external values are taken away? We are develop/learn from the external values then that we get our internal values. Isn't it? How are we able to determine our internal values, then the happiness when we don't know what we are?

I think a lot of the times, what Banach said at the end was true, that "real happiness...cannot be taken away by the external forces beyond their control." Such as the small things like eating the food we like, that we feel satisfied, that we have to say "how delicious" that we think this is happiness. I believe that there is real happiness when one feels it and I don't expect that we need to explain to anyone when we feel that real happiness. It is because if we start explaining it, they would ask questions, then we would have to explain more. The more I think about it, the more I thought, this would ruin the real happiness that I just feel because I want to continue feeling this "real happiness". So why explain something so complicated? (I think all things are complicated) And just feel it the way you are feeling it? (sounds a bit weird, *laughs*...)

"Forces beyond their control" are a funny phrase, because in order to become not beyond their control, we have to think about our essence, pull those triggers out, and then wala~ build something that we can fight that beyond control. However, a lot of the times we thought about how we can't get wings, we can't fly but we have an airplane, but we can't get our own airplane, we're not rich enough. Now thats complicated if you use it on other objects as well. Our essence has made us think about a lot of the fantasy things and something "unreachable", beyond what we are thinking. We have such a big imagination but we cannot use them because there is also science, the things on this Earth, what we can create from it that can make that "unreachable" reachable.

After responding to all that, almost every time we think about something, there is always a force, tiny or huge that would bother us, telling us before you want to get what you want, you must overcome moi.

In part 4, Banach said that we have to consider "freedom for all men", which I agree because that's teamwork. Unlike what I said in the beginning that even though we cannot feel what others are exactly feeling, we are able to have similarities. (Ah, nice English vocabularies that we have for every single little thing). We must think about others before we think it is right which I mean for the big issues. Even if we do stand in one side, it is always the "majority" that stands the winning position. I think it is so hard to think about freedom that what's the point of talking about it when our lives are so short? We're dead before we can find it out, others would know but the dead people wouldn't. (Or if you believe in ghosts and spirits and talk to them then yea *-*)

In conclusion (ahem), I think happiness is a silent word and freedom is a crazy idea.

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