Banach's lecture

I think David Banach was saying how in order to be a free individual, a prefect individual, pure.. He was saying how in order to be free we have to be trapped inside ourselves, and that we can only view what we see through our eyes. His wording is really fancy but it also makes sense. With his example about the person next to us sitting down I got to realize how I am not experiencing what they feel, but am seeing them sitting down. I would have to ask them how they feel sitting down in the chair. Human freedom to me is how humans are free. Free to go about their daily lives, free to think how they want, speak how they want, freedom of speech.. The max amount that an individual can be free. Happiness is how one decides to feel, it doesn't always have to b how things make you feel, or people make you feel. When people decide to be free instead of being a follower can be appreciated, even though some people like to know what to do when someone tells you what to do. An example of appreciating freedom can be if you have been in a relationship for a really long time, and you're used to making a loved one happy, but then the relationship ends there is a sad,or happy feeling depending on how the relationship made you feel in the end. Like in a Lily Allen song she says how "[she] feels like she's been let out of her cage". Some couples depend on their other half and spend so much time relying on each other, that they do not learn how to please themselves. We should strive to be our own individuals and decide our own right and wrong for ourselves (within the law of course). I found it weird that I hadn't thought with depth about the topics that I read in David Bananch's lecture beforehand, but that once I was reading I agreed with him. I also felt like the way he was writing about other people's rear-ends was funny and odd, because I was looking at my mom sitting down and trying to just see her and wonder how she was feeling. Sometimes I wonder if we are all on one board game, being moved around by someone more powerful than we are. I'm okay with being quiet and not talking to myself like I was crazy but thinking in my head and creating conversations as if there really were several people in my head. Yet individuals need other individuals, or they get lonely, angry, upset.. My grandpa lives alone, and whenever he is around the rest of my family he talks a lot because he is lonely. Even with a pet, like a parrot to talk to, I think he would be better. Individuals are alone in their experiences and inside their minds, yet they communicate their thoughts and feelings to other individuals.