So, to embrace the absurd, you have to acknowledge that life is absurd and live it anyway. Being pissy just makes you more miserable. Hence, receiving a punishment by being forced to push a rock up a hill. If you have to do something, you might as well accept it and do it as well as you can. The Myth Of Sisyphus In Albert Camuss The Meaning Of Life. Your options are get pissed when they roll back down, or chill out and not let it bother you. Because there's never anything to do except roll boulders.
The gods already told him, "What you're doing is meaningless." Once he knew that, he could let go and just be content. Fuck." But Sisyphus knows it doesn't matter. The most complete account of this myth comes from a summary of the story as it would have been told in the lost writings of Pherecydes, a genealogist and mythographer of the fifth century BCE. Sounds like it sucks, right? So why is Sisyphus so goddamned pleased with himself? Because all any of us is doing is rolling boulders up hills, and every time the boulder rolls back down, we're all like "Dude, what the fuck?! I spent all goddamn day rolling that boulder. He was like, "fuck that, I do what I want." When that didn't work, the gods told him he had to roll a boulder up a hill again and again, forever. Many of the bullet-points above provide a great degree of catharsis to me, especially the 'Focus on the most living and not on the best living' part. Sisyphus was punished because he chained death up so humans could live forever, he didn't give a fuck about what the gods said about fate. I think Ive understood most of what he is trying to communicate in 'The Myth of Sisyphus', but I still feel like Im having a really superficial understanding of his book. He didn't try to impose meaning or find meaning or make his own meaning - that shit is useless, and Camus says there's no hope for that, so cut it the fuck out. Don Juan, the fuckaholic that started it all, he embraced the absurd. Spark notes: The central concern of The Myth of Sisyphus is what Camus calls " the absurd." Camus claims that there is. Instead, we should embrace the fact that nothing makes sense. So what do we do? What's the point? Should we just end it if nothing matters? No, says Camus, thats the pussy way out. So our attempts to impose reason on the world will fail. Ever had some shit happen to you that made you go, "Why the fuck did that happen? There's no reason for that." Turns out, you were right. No one's running the show, and the world is unreasonable. We all want to know how the universe ultimately works or who's running the show or whatever, and it turns out - TRICK. Look, so, nothing matters, right? Shit's fucking weird.
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