H.W #3 Assignment : Blog Post #2

"Would you say that figuring out who you are has to do with the meaning of life? - Mara

When i was reading through my classmate's guiding questions, i find Mara's question quite interesting. Her question makes me wonder who exactly is "Quinn Wu" Is he just some kid who goes to School of the Future and learn? Is he a random kid from the street? Is he just a kid that wants to be like everyone else? Is "Quinn Wu" part of who i am?

I've been trying to figure out this question out myself since i was in middle school, but as time pass by i get to know myself even more by the way i perform. In my opinion i think that figuring out who you truely am has to do with the meaning of life. You control every part of your body, yours words, and your action, no one can really change who you really am. You have to realize what kind of person you am from the inside. The outside really dont matter because you change when you're with your friends or families but inside of yourself you can actually feel who you are.

According to David Banach, he came up with some really good point about islotating yourself. "Omg, this quote caught my attention." From my man David B. : "or just as we feel a tension looking in the mirror wondering how the person in the glass can be ME..." Omg... these are not even human words, these are gods words. How can our apparance affect our life? Our mind is just simply playing roles which affect our inside and no one can change that. So i believe as you figure who you really am, it has to do with the meaning of life.

HW # 2 : Blog Comments 1

To Mahogany,

Hey Mahogany, awesome paper you have written. You are such a strong writer. Your paper is amazing and thoughtful. You put a lot of effort into this paper, didnt you? It was clear and you even breakdown your major points to make it easy for us to understand.

You explain how absolute individual is one who use their own mind and logic to get through life without anyone. There is truely no one in the world can understand how we feel inside. We think and feel differently, like what you mention about guns. Gun to you equals fear but to the majority of people they think gun are fun and it is for protection. You came up with a good point of how people feel so alone inside of them and just cant let it out. I love your statement... " The thought of being alone in the world is not to smoothing. It rates almost the same emotions as being the last living person in the world." I totally agree with you.

Mahogany, I dont know what to say, your paper is fantastic. We have the same thoughts of being left alone. It is like we are trapped into this dark place and couldnt find the way out. This also leads me to a horrible feeling that my "girlfriend" doesnt really know who i am. It is like when we get into a fight, she doesnt realize what i am thinking and feeling.

Thanks for updating this wonderful essay about the "island of subjectivitly" You are the best =D I wish Mr. Manley assign me as your group member so i can keep on reading your interesting essay.

HW #1 Manley's Homework

Hey neighbor, how you like your new home?" "It's fine, how you doing?" Just pause right there for a second. I'm waiting for the B74 bus trying to get back home, have a lot of stuff on my mind. My headphones are on. My wallet and cellphone lock inside my pocket. My chain hidden underneath my shirt. My schoolbad is bunckle around my chest. Praying the bus will be here soon. My heart is pounding and my eyes is wandering around to see new faces. I know deep inside of me, people are watching me and thinking who i am. It is a 20 minutes ride home. The feeling I have inside of me, needs hopes and a mix feeling of fear and happiness. There are 100 eyes on me and every eye tells me something, but what exactly is that something?

I remember three weeks ago before school start, i was playing basketball with my friend, John Li at Coney Island. We both were brave enought to stop through the park and chill. I had a feeling everything will just go fine, until these two little kids approach us. We ball for a while and something happen. We got into some sort of a fight. The two little kids called their "big brother" over, but i ignore them. "Were the kids trying to scare us away because we were bigger than them?" I was not really sure what was running on the kids mind, which leads me to a horrible feeling. Something horrible did happen. The big brother along with his four huge friends went wild on us. He didnt let me explain what happen and he just fuck with us. "I am 17 years old. Does he realize i am older than them? I was thinking were the "big brother" nervous when he talk to me?" I was know how i feel inside but actually dont know what he may be thinking for sure. "How do I know if he really wants to hurt us or just want to show off he is not a pussy and step up to his brother?" I was trapped inside my mind and dont know what is my next step...

Anyway, I think all of this connects to Banach's idea of "Absolute individuality." Mr. David Banach pointed out some major points of how we are trapped inside our own mind, not able to realize or predict what other people are really thinking. We could only understand ourselves. We are stuck on our "islands of subjectivity" which means we can only see our own point of view and cant really judge other people sense. "Only we feel our pains, our pleasures, our hopes, and fears immediately, subjectively, from the inside. Other people only see us from the outside, objectively, and hard as we may try, we can only see them from the outside. No one else can feel what we feel, and we cannot feel what is going on in any one else's mind." Makes perfect sense right? David Banach is trying to explain how our mind cannot really flow inside someone's mind, cant actually feel what that person is thinking. For example, it is true if that person really love you but only you? How you know for sure? How can our feeling be connected with someone else's mind? When can we ever leave our "island of subjectivity?"

*thinking*I love my new home, sir.


but not this...


neighborhood!