The Reasons Of Life In The Myth Of Sisyphus, By Albert Camus

Life is just a long suffer until death, anyway. Such as Sisyphus, in The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus, condemned to roll a boulder up a hill and once at the top let it roll back down just to push it back up. It is a ceaseless task that he is condemned to act out for eternity, with no reward at all, alone. The Gods thought that there was no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Much the same, life is for everyone, because that’s all life is. Nothing people perform has any real purpose behind it. It’s hard to think that everything society does is for nothing, then again, that’s the way it is. There’s no greater goal to life. “After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die.”-E.B White, Charlotte’s

None of those worldly goods make us truly happy, so there truly is no reason to spend a lifetime working and suffering for anything else other than a positive outcome. Society has taught us that these items are important and the more one has, the better person they will be, thus, the more respected one should be. People are not born with the idea that they need material belongings, or what mankind refers to as wealth, to be happy; rather, this is learned behavior, picked up from elders before them. Thoughts such as this corrupt people. If there is no goal or reward at the end of a life, there shouldn’t be a reason people collectively try for more than just basic survival. Simple, that’s where religion comes in. People created religion and gods and heavens and nirvana’s because they are afraid that all they undertake in is for nothing. They fear that they are truly alone. This is still a thought despite the billions of people sharing the same planet. After death, none of them matter, what people genuinely want is to think that their life isn’t just for nothing and that they were put here for a

If one feels forced to execute something or that it is just a routine they are bound to follow then in return will remove their free will and set them into an unnatural way of life by following the stencil society has built for them; regardless if it was their choice or not. Franz Kafka demonstrates this in The Metamorphosis by creating a character named Gregor that is so caught up in his monotonous life that he turns into the literal being his life was a metaphor for, a bug. Gregor is underappreciated and alone even though he is always surrounded by his family. He is the only person in his life that made the choice to follow the “ideal” life society leads one to believe they should have and it just drives him to pain and grief and ultimately his demise as a result of the ensuing change he experiences. Once Gregor changes into a bug he finally feels similar to being alone, even though, he was the whole time; he becomes even more of an outcast than previously. His family gives him no sympathy, despite the fact that he has been providing for all of their wants and expenses for years. This demonstrates how life’s struggle is worth nothing if it is done for others and that the choices carried out in life add up to nothing in the