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albert campus sissyphus
Albert Camus was a French philosopher who asked the biggest question there is: if life has no built-in meaning, why not just quit? He answers with an old Greek myth.
Sisyphus was a cunning king punished by the gods forever. His sentence: push a huge boulder up a mountain, watch it roll back down, then start again.
Camus says this rock is not ancient news — it's every one of us. Wake, work, eat, sleep, repeat, forever, no final finish line ever reached.
His shocking twist: don't despair, and don't fake hope either. Just accept the pushing itself as the whole point, with no reward waiting at the top.
So Camus ends with a famous line: we must imagine Sisyphus happy — because he owns his rock, and owning your fate, absurd as it is, is freedom.
The rock never stops rolling back — but the moment you choose to push it anyway, freely, you've already won.