![]() He thrust his belief that the world is an absurd place, we build our life on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow brings us closer to death and we forget that we do die one day. The optimist in me refused to accept that. He proceeds to compare our actions, our daily jobs to that of Sisyphus and deems it meaningless. Many people grapple with the idea of suicide as they believe the world does not hold any meaning to them. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide, says Albert Camus in his adaptation of the Myth of Sisyphus. Now I want to ask a question, do you empathize with Sisyphus? We may not have done the cruel deeds to deserve that, but sometimes don’t we feel like this life is meaningless suffering from monotonous tasks filling the time in between? For some, their sufferings are subsuming them wholly, and sadly suicide seems the only option. He had to push up a heavy rock and watch it roll down only to repeat the same process over and over. A lifetime of never-ending and pointless tasks was the retribution to his self-aggrandizing ways. He was finally brought to the underworld, where Zeus, the god of Gods castigated him. He angered all the gods by tricking them and escaping death twice. He took pleasure in killing travelers and guests who came to Ephyra, thus violating the sacred laws of hospitality. He was a clever but wicked man, full of avarice and deceit. ![]() ![]() He was the founder and first ruler of Ephyra. Let me share the story of Sisyphus on what he did to warrant such a tedious punishment of drudgery. ![]()
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