How To Live Like Sisyphus

I'm Sisyphus and I'm happy.

i do seem to be pretty decent at hiding my misery from my friends and family, so there's a start. now i guess it's on to eating and sleeping even less

xD

Or finally make the guy with a billion rocks pay tax until everyone can tell how much a billion is.

Or yeah bad timeline, no tax on the evil, we can do that, too, okay buddy.

what's the song in the background ?

"It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me." – Camus
What do you do with the moment after you've failed again? Most people remember Sisyphus for the boulder. Camus didn't. In The Myth of Sisyphus he says the part that interests him is the walk back down, when the rock has rolled to the bottom and Sisyphus follows it with empty hands. He calls it the hour of consciousness. Nothing is being pushed, nothing is being achieved, and for that reason it is the only moment Sisyphus fully sees his situation. That is where his freedom lives, not in the effort, but in how he walks back to it. We spend our lives trying to get the boulder to the top. Maybe the real question was always how we come down.

Guys, you're missing the point.

Sisyphus deserves his fucking punishment.

That's the whole story.

The gods ended up giving him exactly what he wanted: an eternal arena to waste all his time and energy trying to get one last "fuck you" in after spending his entire life outsmarting them.

That's the fucking joke.

So remember, if you're not a psycho, houseguest-murdering, evil bastard king like Sisyphus who cares nothing more than to establish dominance (over his house-guests no less), the story isn't about you.

…Evil boulders in the underworld are for ACTUALLY EVIL PEOPLE.

Don't get tricked into mistaking the normal fucked-up parts of your lives for some evil boulder the gods sentenced you to push.

And DON'T waste your time comparing yourself to Sisyphus. It's a goddamn looshtrap.

Step away from the rock, people. You're not in goddamn Tartarus, and you never will be, cuz that shit isn't even fucking real.

Real talk

I've been doing a lot of Camus lately.

The Adulterous Woman, The Guest, and The Silent Men are all awesome.

I believe Sisyphus is happy because he likes the actual action of pushing the rock up the hill. The rock rolling down every time shy of the top and the physical toll count as suffering, but the enjoyment of the process is still there. And that pleasure outweighs the suffering.
​So, to get why he should be happy, the point isn’t to focus on him almost making it to the peak just for the rock to drop back down—with zero output and everything being pointless. The focus has to be on the physical sensations, on the senses. Drop the obsession with productivity and just feel the pleasure of the journey.
​That’s why I think Sisyphus is happy.

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Dude, I love your videos but you GOTTA change the mixing on your voice. Idk what exactly is going on but your voice sounds so compressed that all the little mouth sounds are getting pushed up.

Craving causes suffering. If you end craving, you end suffering.

To do list:

1: Push rock

one billion men and women must imagine sisyphus happy

only 3 min video oh

Awsome video! Can't wait for the newsletter to comeback.

One must imagine Sisiphus sad

Nice refresh

One must imagine him happy. One must.

What an absurd video, thank you sisyphus55!

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