The Myth of Sisyphus

The world is a mess of unreason, and our minds keep asking for one tidy answer. The clash between the two is what Camus calls the absurd.

Camus admires the “absurd man”: someone who admits that human reason and the world’s unreason are opposed, and holds that position. Even bruised all over by it, he stays awake and keeps fighting.

Living on hope brings the illusion that tomorrow will be better. Meaning gets mortgaged to the future, and what we feel, suffer and resist today is overlooked. So if we put no hope in the future, how do we live? Camus says: enjoy life to the full.

Feel each day fully. Take each day greedily.

Freedom and passion are where life starts, and the absurd man is ready to answer for what they bring.