Suffering In Albert Camus The Myth Of Sisyphus

Suffering and hardship are a part of life. You can look at any culture, any country, any family, and see that, at any point in time, there is something that can seem absurd or hopeless. The Myth of Sisyphus is a prime example in having experience absurd suffering with no end in sight, where Sisyphus is punished by the gods to push a bolder up to the top of a hill, only to have it roll back down and start all over again. Albert Camus, however, says that in any absurd situation, happiness is present. To Camus, Sisyphus is an absurd man, yet he has the ability to find small moments of happiness during his eternal punishment. Sisyphus finds happiness at the top of the hill, almost celebrating his small, redundant accomplishment of reaching

A lot of times “you need to step back and look at it. This is what is making me unhappy or this is what is causing a challenge for me. How do I approach this thing in particular, rather than how do I approach my entire life? No one is completely physically and emotionally and mentally capable of tackling their entire life with a positive outlook. You have to notice each piece and figure out which one is causing you grief. How do I handle this one piece?” A lot of times, people become so overwhelmed by their lives and the things that are going wrong that they forget to see that there are also things that are going right, that there are good and happy things as well. We often just look at our lives and say “It’s broken,” yet we are not “looking at each piece individually and figuring out which piece is broken, which piece needs to be worked on.” Sarah also thinks it is super important to realize that “it’s not the world fighting you. It’s just the world… Everyone is fighting as well… Everyone is pushing up their own boulder.” Everyone is individually dealing their own hill and their own boulder; it is not an individual