However, whenever he tried his best to push the boulder near the top of the mountain, it would slip out of his hand and roll down the hill.
Sisyphus had to move on and push the boulder to the top of the mountain again. Day after day, he fell into endless slavery.
Camus, a French writer, found some symbolic meaning of the realistic dilemma of human beings from this famous ancient Greek myth, so he wrote a famous article "The Myth of Sisyphus" and expounded his absurd heroic idea.
The Myth of Sisyphus was written by the 20th century existentialist philosopher Camus.
Camus thinks: "There is only one really serious philosophical problem: suicide. Judging whether life is worth experiencing is itself answering the fundamental question of philosophy. "
In this book, Camus painted such a picture for us to explain his philosophy of life: dusty Sisyphus was punished by the gods and pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain. The stone rolled down from the top of the mountain under its own weight, and Sisyphus went down again and pushed the stone to the top of the mountain.
The gods believe that there is no more severe punishment than doing such ineffective and hopeless labor.
However, Sisyphus is firmly heading for endless suffering. He realized his fate, but his efforts never stopped. He knew that he was the master of his own destiny, and what he did was a rebellion against fate and a contempt for the gods.
Sisyphus is an absurd hero. He devoted his whole body and mind to an ineffective cause.
In Camus' view, Sisyphus's consciousness of famine brought him pain and also made him win.
His struggle to climb to the top of the mountain is enough to make people feel full.
He believes that Sisyphus is happy.
Obviously, according to Camus' philosophy of life, no fate is a punishment for people. As long as we do our best, we should be happy.
People have spirit, but they also have a vital body. The spirit relies on the body to exhaust everything now and experience the whole of life.
The nobleness of human beings is to find their place again in this meaningless world.
So there is no need to eliminate rumors. The key is to live, but to live with this rupture.
Saying yes to life is actually a kind of resistance, which gives meaning to this desolate world.
Suicide is an escape. It wants to eliminate the myth, but it will never be eliminated.
Camus also opposed suicide. He is full of love for life. Like Sisyphus, he is infatuated with the blue sky and the vast sea.
He wants to end all this, and he wants to say yes to life.
Camus used to be the spiritual mentor of a generation of young people after World War II.
Knowing that he can't eliminate the evil in the world, facing a life doomed to tragedy and a ruthless and absurd world, he still walks down the hill to the absurd world with Sisyphus' firm steps, encouraging the post-war generation who suffered from severe trauma.
Sisyphus's myth is destined to be a "sad song with a smile".
(Text: Zhu Wenjing)