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Banach's lecture was over whelming but very powerful. He opened up my mind to many things such as are we really free or are we controlled by everyone or everything we do. How we can be the only ones to find happiness and we are basically alone in this world. I agree with some of his ideas but disagree with others.

I think that as people/ humans we are never free. There is always one person who will be higher then us telling us what to do. As kids we have our parents telling us what to do at home and during the day we have teachers who tend to get us in trouble if we don't act a certain way. When we grow up we will always have a boss who will tell us what to do. If we don't have a boss we will have our conscious which will control us into doing the right thing most of the time. If we don't then the law/ police are after us and we are controlled even more. In my opinion i don't think we are ever truly free, we are always constricted by some rule or law that keeps us from being free and doing what we truly  want to do. 

A big topic during Banach's lecture was happiness. "The existentialist's secret of happiness, then, is to get ones value from within oneself" This means that the only way you are going to be truly happy is if you get it from your own self, such as your own heart, soul, thoughts..etc. I agree with this quote because who else knows you like more then yourself? No one which means if you make yourself happy and not worry about people judging you and classifying you, you will find true happiness in yourself. 

If we rely on other's to make us happy all the time we will suffer. " The Existentialist enjoins us to be ourselves and make the source of our nature and values our own internal decisions.." Why base our happiness of external things, when there are internal things that make us a lot more happy. We should be based off authenticity not how we fit in with a certain group of people!