Who is This Guy?

The book so far is good. I like it. But the main character Meursault to me has no emotion at all. Like in the beginning of the book Meursault”s mother died at he really did not have any emotion towards the fact that she is dead. He did not even want to see her at the funeral. If I found out that my own mother died I really do not know what I would do. I would be so depressed. I would cry so much I really do not know how I would stop. Meursault did not even cry. He did not even show that he was somewhat sad. I feel that no one in this world should feel like that or act like that. I feel people should have emotion for anything. I believe that if everyone act the way Meursault do then what’s the point of living if no one has any emotion for anything. Feeling numb for the rest of your life is no point of living if you can’t feel anything..
Now ever since the beginning of the book since he showed no emotion towards anything I read throughout the book with no emotion. Trying to get into character while reading I feel I should read with no emotion. And reading this book is frustrating me because when reading and trying to get into character all of a sudden I feel like the way he acts. I feel like I have no emotion right that second. Or I feel like I have no care for anything.
Overall the book is good and I like it but hate reading it because of how the character acts throughout the book.

Do We Live In a World That is Meaningful and Make Sense

Do we live in a world that is meaningful and makes sense? Me personally I do not know myself. I feel that we do live in a world that is meaningful and makes sense but in this world today there are too many beliefs today about life that makes me wonder. Questions like what’s the point of life, or why do we live, etc. Life has been questioned in so many ways.
It kind of depends on the person and what they believe if you are looking through others perspective. Something that I think is meaningful or make sense others might disagree with me. Also it depends on moments and the events that happens in life. Like for example some people do not know why people die or even know what’s the point of death itself. People death do not make sense to others. People even sometimes question their own selves. Tommy’s girlfriend ask “if nothing matters, how can I matter?” to me she believes that this world has no meaning so what’s the point of living. Tommy himself said “Once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing left to lose”. By him saying that he believes that there is no point of living when you realize that.
Me, I believe we do live in a meaningful world that makes sense because I feel that as we grow we learn so much in life in order to survive or even learn who we really are as people and develop more as a person. Also if we are doing something successful then that makes sense on what’s the point of living. Help provide support for others. People believe that we are connected in life. That we are not alone. Bernard said “Everything is the same, even if it’s different”. To me that’s saying that everyone and everything is the same.
I feel that we do live in a world that is meaningful and makes sense but others mighht not agree so it depends on the person’s perspective in life.

Hw#3 Comment Jacara

I like how you started your blog and explaining about happiness and how not everyone has happiness. You also back up your argument and connected yourself and said how "Something that makes me happy might not make someone else happy and vice versa" and I like how you did that.

Everything you said about happiness is explain thoroughly and I am very interested but i disagree. I do believe that everyone has some form of happiness and is able to get it within themselves.

I also like what you have said about whether we are free or not but i also believe that we are not free most of the time.

i really enjoy reading your blog and you got me thinking about my points and whether I'm wrong or not. I can't wait to read other blogs from you.

Hw #3 Comment Steph

I like how you started your blog and agree with you that Banach also opened my mind to many things and made me think about alot. The same things you were thinking about and was questioning alot.

I strongly agree with you about how we are not free that there is always someone or something controlling us. I really like how you said "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". I never really thought about that.

I also agree with what you've said about happiness and we get our happiness from our own selves. Basically in order to be happy we have independent and trust that our happiness comes from within.

I really enjoy reading your blog. Everything you said I agree with and also said it kind of differently. Can't wait to read more.

Freedom and Happiness

Banach mentions that our happiness comes from within ourselves. I personally I agree with that statement because I feel that we are our own happiness. That whatever we do and how we feel makes us happy. But also what can influence us with our happiness is our surrounding and our society. When we adapt to our surroundings we make the best of it. The society’s comfort can be an influence our happiness.
I feel that in order to be happy we have to actually do something and make a difference with different situations also. Like for an example, being depressed and or going through harsh times people tend to give up and not try to make the best of the situation or at least to what they feel can make them happy in any terms.
Also Banach talks about the “The Ethics of Absolute Freedom” and I personally feel like we are not free. At moments I feel like we are free but in the long run we aren’t. I believe that we are captured and trapped in our own mind and thoughts. Also I believe that our essence comes before our existence. And if that is true then to me that means that if we are an orb or some form of a spirit then we are trapped in our body.
Not only if what I believe that our essence comes before our existence might be true, in our society today we are not fully free. We have consequences if we were to commit a crime. Get can get punish by our own actions. So basically we aren’t fully free to do anything we want. But if we are fully free then our society wouldn’t have any type of consequence.
In my opinion I do agree with what Banach was saying about happiness and feel that we are not fully free. But that’s just my opinion.