Enough To Fill A Heart
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. I fancy Sisyphus returning to his rock, and the sorrow that was in the beginning…This is the rock’s hour; this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear...Like Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain, one always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates gods and raises rocks. The universe seems to him neither sterile nor futile. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a heart. One imagines Sisyphus happy.
-Albert Camus
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I love Camus. When faced with a meaningless universe, what do you do? Do you take a "leap of faith" and trust that one day good stuff will start to happen? Do you gut yourself? Or do you just accept that this shitty life is your shitty life and there really is nothing shitty about it after all unless you expected more anyway. Sisyphus' rock is only a burden if he imagines life without it. Own every moment of your life and you too can laugh.
What a great fucking idea!
(Coincidentally, I found your site through our common enjoyment of that book.)
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