blog #3 english banach

In this section Banach constantly brings up the idea of our goals in life and how we are too often happy and satisfied with the situation we are given. When we are faced with a situation our way of dealing is just getting through it. As I understand it Banach is telling us that we should quit taking the suffer and do something about it. Only we can truly change the outcome of the situation to better ourselves. Banach asks “Why would this fool be happy eternally rolling a ball up a hill?” Although we are not technically rolling a ball up a hill our entire lives it can be compared to what we do as people. Constantly accepting the situations we are given and every time we do finally reach a goal, we move on to the next thing we want to achieve. We always strive to get what we cannot have. In elementary school we are told to work hard to get into a good middle school. In middle school it becomes important to do well on the test so we can go to a good high school. From there it continues on to college, and graduate school and then we need to work hard to get a decent job. We work our entire lives so we can retire at around age seventy. This seems reversed to me. The youthful days where our body is well and fully functioning we spend time in classrooms where we could spend time exploring the world and experiencing different cultures. When we are old and retired we worry about getting sick and stay home all day. We spend to much of our time worrying about things we have control over. Technically speaking if man constantly put in the right amount of work he would end up doing a lot less worrying.