Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus: Finding Joy in Struggle

Albert Camus opened his famous essay with a bombshell: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." He was asking: if life is absurd—if we crave meaning but the universe offers none—why keep going? His answer is the Myth of Sisyphus. Sisyphus was punished by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down, for eternity. Camus asks us to imagine Sisyphus happy. The joy comes not from reaching the top, but from the struggle itself. To embrace the absurd is to live with passion, freedom, and revolt. It’s to say "yes" to life, even in its meaninglessness. The boulder is our project, our life. Push it. Find your meaning in the act of pushing.