HW 8 - Personal Manifesto Reflection

Throughout this unit, I enjoyed reading and dissecting Banach’s lecture into pieces with meaning. Although his lecture often seems repetitive, I still appreciate his profound ideas about human life as individuals who are seeking for freedom and happiness. What helps me to understand it the best is by the discussion that we have every time we finished reading parts of his lecture. Not only helps me to collect more perspective about his ideas, it also deepens the meaning of his lecture to me personally.

After reading the whole lecture by Banach, I was actually pleased to write my personal manifesto to combine all the ideas that Banach offers with my own. However, I do face lots of difficulties during the process of writing this manifesto. At first, I thought I was planning to follow the format that the assignment was suggesting. But after few paragraphs of rambling and pre write, I personally didn’t like it. If writing something that I don’t find it worth to write, I just lost passion towards it really quick. Then it ends up, I am hang in the middle either restart or continue writing. Lastly, when I heard the song named “Desperado” at mid night, I start to have inspiration of how to write my manifesto. I am actually proud about my ideas of setting up the manifesto into my tone and style, but not the entire manifesto. Since I really get stuck at the end of not knowing how to end the manifesto, I think it actually ruin the whole essay as a whole. I will say, everything is imperfect. Of course.

In ten years, what I want to remember about the past month should be some of the ideas that Banach talks about in his lecture. Not that his ideas will affect my life in any way, is just his profound thinking about human life is something that I should be aware of. I will remember how he was saying that we are all alone in this world and nobody will feel our pain. Additionally, I will remember how he suggested to others that in order to find our identity and happiness, it has to be within us, internally. This is considering valuable and meaningful if it is found by us within. These are the ideas that I find it significant to remember in life as something new. Many of these ideas that Banach talks about are mostly new to me and it is completely something that I would never thought of unless someone bring it up. Thus, I think it is nice to learn something that you never been touch before. It really makes me reconsider about my life, but not to change my own ideal of living. Whether or not it makes me more enlightened, I think it is worth to feel the real sense of curiosity.