Personal Manifesto: "This I Believe"

David Banach. Who is David Banach? And why are we studying about him? Is he the next Obama that will take us to the next level to succeed in life? Is he the next person that will say the words...? “Yes We Are Free?” Will he call himself “The Pursue of Happiness?” Quite frankly we don’t know that much about him. All we know is that David Banach is a member of the Saint Anselm College Philosophy Department. Professor Banach’s main interests were in Science, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and in technology. There were several interviews of why professor Banach loves teaching chemistry. In one of his interview “Meet the Philosophers Series number 9,” David Banach said that during junior year, he watch a commercial that says fix this device with formulas which will make your life shiny for 10 years. This commercial influenced his life to become a Science Geek. David Banach was always interested in science topics and was fascinated of how these ideas interact with him to the world. And how these scientific topic gave him a chance to finally see who he was and helping himself to find his way. He was draw into philosophy because he found that science has a connection to the human lives and the study of nature.

David Banach also wrote a lecture about “The Ethics of Absolute Freedom.” In his first lecture Banach mentions “What can the absolute freedom of absolute individuals mean?” Banach is trying to say that it is impossible to communicate with the world directly. Only we know over selves very deeply, everyone sees the world in a different way. If someone very close to you tries to explain their feeling to you; you pretty much won’t have any ideas of how they are really feeling. Words don’t always help us to understand, only action or having the same similar experience helps us get closer to other people. “Only we feel our pains, our pleasures, our hopes, fears immediately, subjectively from the inside.” Within ourselves we only can truly understand our own perspective in life. Only over selves knows what we want and need.

David Banach also pointed out some points of how we are trapped inside our mind, not able to realize what other people are thinking. We are stuck on our “island of subjectively.” You see what you want to see. You see what you wish to see. You see what you think you saw. Your mind, beliefs, ideas, knowledge, past experience, and emotions interferes with your senses and changes into subjectivity reality.

Personal I think that this concern about being subjectivity to ourselves seems pretty interesting. It defines who we are. I don’t think it is necessary for people to know what we have in mind or how we are feeling. It is impossible for everyone to have the same thoughts because if we do this world will be so stupid. If everyone brain function the same way then how can we contributed knowledge to make this world a better place. Banach believes that even thought we live on the same planet; we are trapped to our own subjective views that cannot be defined.

I remember last Monday, when I left the city to go visit Stony Brook, I felt very excited that I have this opportunity to step into my next future home. I was thinking to myself that if I get away from my friends and families for once, I will do much better in college. I wasn’t going on the trip alone; I went on the trip with some old friends I haven’t seen in a while. “I though to myself, hey maybe it aren’t so bad to live with some old friends, they won’t bring me down.” But as soon as I recognize one of my friend’s face, my heart starts to pound. I couldn’t believe she is “now” backing into my life. After all these years, I was trying to get away from her; she appears at the wrong time. It has been 3 years since I want her out of my life, she didn’t want to give me a chance, so I just have to find someone that can replace her. But, now, after seeing her I want to get in touch with her even though I have a girlfriend. I feel completely torn down. One of her friend realizes I was upset and tries to comfort me. “It has been so long, I was trying the best I can to forget her but once I saw her… my heart starts aching.” “I feel life I need her more than anyone but I don’t want to hurt my own girlfriend.” “I know how you feel, Quinn” she said to me. “Everyone faces live differently and you probably live better off without her.” “Someday you get what you want.” We talked about this for an hour and I believe that every word she said to me. Both of us has the same thoughts and understand the modern world of facing true loves. But, after, reading David Banach’s lecture, I think the talk with my friend was completes a waste of my time. “No one else can feel what we feel, and we cannot feel what’s going on in anyone else’s mind.” Do we really understand each other? Do you think anyone really knows who we are? We don’t, we just live and play a significance part of life.

People spend their lives searching for happiness and freedom. Something that can let them know that they have freedom to do whatever they want. People all over the world are trying to find that very special thing that aloud them to be separate from others. It is like saying everyone has their goals to accomplish and they search for what really defines them. As what David Banach states, “I am more then just these… I am free to do whatever I choose.” If we are free to do whatever we want, then we are the same. I disagree with David Banach because we are not free and we are defiantly not the same. But don’t think it is the end of the world. Just don’t think about negative stuff, set your mind onto the positive side. You will live to be an thousand. You won a lottery ticket. Just live your life the way you wanted to. Don’t let this negative influence control you and take away your happiness. No one deserves this kind of punishment.

As I was thinking to myself, will this affect me? Of course it will affect me. The world is trying to take away my happiness and the only way to live in this world is to be happy, so I’ll not back down, neither should you. I'll surely eat the same foods as you; I’ll surely wake up and travel to school with you. I'll surely fight my part of life with you. And i am surely we have goals to achieve. The point of this essay is to let you people know that freedom equals to happiness. This can help you tackle many goals. If you have no idea what i am trying to say... go and find a bum and ask him/her do they have freedom and can they find happiness in their freedom? Apparently not, they set goals for them but they didn’t really want to achieve it... so they are out in the street. They are free to do whatever they want but are they happy? I don’t think sooooo.... so please live the way you want your life to be.

I believe that there’s a purpose why god made us. Each and every one are assigned differently to play a role in lives. Every one has their own ability to truly find their own values. You control every part of your body, your words, your action, no one can really change who you really am. You have to realize what is inside you and don’t worry about the outside of you. God has a reason to create you and you are the only person that will go through life the way god wants you to. So just live with passion and don’t worry what will happen in the future. And remember don’t let the world control you… let your mind control the world.