About a year and a half ago, I went to a bookstore with dad after we had a dinner as he insisted on buying me some good books.(dad always puts so much emphasis on reading...whenever I talk to him, now it feels little like a nag...love ya daddy!) But he let me choose whichever books I want, so the first one I picked was Albert Camus' 'The Myth of Sisyphus' since I liked his another piece, 'The Stranger'
When I picked it up, dad(who once was a zealous supporter of existentialism) seemed a little surprised and I didn't know why. Anyway, the book went right to some corner of the bookshelf and it only had been gathering dust. After 1&1/2 year later, finally I flipped the cover as I sought for some books to read during the summer vacation.
Right to the point, this book is about the meaning of life. Sounds very simple and cliche, I know.(just shut up and read the book then you'll soon find out that the subject is not that simple...)
Camus tries to find out the meaning of life through the relationships between suicide and hope, and the link of the two, absurdity. Both suicide and hope are very easy way to vanish absurdity of our lives, which is actually unavoidable and an essential factor that sustains our lives.
People live on hope that there's God who will give us eternal lives and grace in heaven. And for the sake of immotality, they worship the Greatest. With God(the very one who gives us all the pain and chalenges will finally save us?!), people try to justify their trifling every day lives which seem meaningless from distance.
Another way to break the status of absurdity is suicide, ironically. People, at some point, suddenly get to know that their struggles are no use. It is so clear for them that their lives are boring and tiring. Such lucidity only torments us. Some of us consider the world is too hostile and not worth bothering, so that they lose the will to fight, then the only option left is - suicide.
Some regard suicide is the ultimate method of resistance to the cruel world but the truth to be told, the world just does not care, then the death becomes again, meaningless.
Camus extols absurdity. Absurdity is the most precious way of resistance to the world who doesn't listen or talk. Staying being absurd - conceding the meaninglessness of life but still living on - till their hearts stop beating and all the cognitive activites cease, is the most powerful riot against the world that gives us such painful fates in the first place.
Living More transcends living better.
Fight for the right to live the most.
When I picked it up, dad(who once was a zealous supporter of existentialism) seemed a little surprised and I didn't know why. Anyway, the book went right to some corner of the bookshelf and it only had been gathering dust. After 1&1/2 year later, finally I flipped the cover as I sought for some books to read during the summer vacation.
Right to the point, this book is about the meaning of life. Sounds very simple and cliche, I know.(just shut up and read the book then you'll soon find out that the subject is not that simple...)
Camus tries to find out the meaning of life through the relationships between suicide and hope, and the link of the two, absurdity. Both suicide and hope are very easy way to vanish absurdity of our lives, which is actually unavoidable and an essential factor that sustains our lives.
People live on hope that there's God who will give us eternal lives and grace in heaven. And for the sake of immotality, they worship the Greatest. With God(the very one who gives us all the pain and chalenges will finally save us?!), people try to justify their trifling every day lives which seem meaningless from distance.
Another way to break the status of absurdity is suicide, ironically. People, at some point, suddenly get to know that their struggles are no use. It is so clear for them that their lives are boring and tiring. Such lucidity only torments us. Some of us consider the world is too hostile and not worth bothering, so that they lose the will to fight, then the only option left is - suicide.
Some regard suicide is the ultimate method of resistance to the cruel world but the truth to be told, the world just does not care, then the death becomes again, meaningless.
Camus extols absurdity. Absurdity is the most precious way of resistance to the world who doesn't listen or talk. Staying being absurd - conceding the meaninglessness of life but still living on - till their hearts stop beating and all the cognitive activites cease, is the most powerful riot against the world that gives us such painful fates in the first place.
Living More transcends living better.
Fight for the right to live the most.
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