week 4 blog 1

The Myth of Sisyphus brought up an interesting discussion on Monday.  The idea that we should picture him as happy is a very foreign concept.  A man forced to push a boulder up a mountain every day in a futile attempt to leave hades.  How can he be viewed as happy? Although, if you translate it to life, it makes more sense.  We go through life dealing with so many hardships just to die at the end.  It’s as if everything we do is done in vain.  Yet, we do it anyway.  The hard drive example really stuck out to me.  You write a paper just to have your hard drive crash right when you finish.  And so you write it again and again just to have the hard drive crash every single time.   But you keep on writing.  Why?  If you think of the paper as life, and the hard drive crashing as death, why keep writing? Why not just give up?  Why not kill yourself? It could save you the pain of having to experience the crash just when everything seems to be all good.  But, that’s a coward’s way out.  You shouldn’t kill yourself to save yourself from the pain of writing the paper that is your life.  No. you should write the best paper you can.  Just to spite the fact that your hard drive is going to crash.  Life is more about the writing of the paper than the finished product.  We live in an absurd world yes, but use that as motivation to carry on.  Just say “fuck you universe, I‘m not going to give in, I’m going to live the best life I can just to spite the fact that you don’t give a damn about me!”