If life’s meaningless, like how do you even be happy with it?! ₍ᐢ._.ᐢ₎

Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on is a superhuman achievement:

Dr. Albert Camus

The fact that I, one of the most depressed and anxious human beings on planet Earth, writing for this particular topic is kinda ironic. But also the fact that you, searched for this, implies you and I have something in common too. Which is that we are still fighting for it, struggling for it. It is the …… The Happiness Journey …… (include upbeat music!!!😊)

So on this note, I will focus on the following,

1) The Greek myth of King Sisyphus ( wait what?…, yes folks don’t sound unconvinced cause things are gonna get interesting!!!)

2) The after-analysis of the myth according to Dr. Albert Camus ( sounds boring ? hell no!)

3) How to actually engrave the facts into our lives

1) The Greek myth of king Sisyphus

Now I’m not sure whether I read this in Rick Riordan’s “ Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods “ or “ Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes “ and I really can’t be bothered to go through them again. Anyway, I remember that king Sisyphus is a literal jerk who tried to punish all the visitors who entered his kingdom, Ephyra ( now known as Corinth). He was actually the first king of it and the smart ruler who made the kingdom prosperous and all, but you know everyone is bound to have some loosen nuts! And Greek gods back then treated hospitality as a very important norm, even Zeus himself visited the kingdoms in disguise to see whether the visitors are treated well. I know right! Of all the things he could worry about, he chose HOSPITALITY. Anyways this nasty habit of Sisyphus made Zeus put him in the “ Bad kings to be punished later ” book. One day Sisyphus tried to seduce his niece and that took him on Zeus’s nerves. ( yeah the god who doesn’t even have a count of his no. of girlfriends?? I know I know, but that’s how it happened)

Then rather than sending a direct lightning strike ( so that he can make this humble writer less irritated), Zeus sent Thanatos ( AKA the god of death ) to chain him in the underworld. Now Sisyphus being this all-smartass king, deceived the god of death himself by chaining him in his trap. That’s one time he escaped death. After this chain scenario, Sisyphus even deceived Persephone, the queen of the underworld, and escaped death for the second time. ( now folks I’m not gonna tell all the details cause it will make this too long) .Now despite being more aggravated about Sisyphus, Zeus invited him to his palace and told him … “ I AM INTERESTED IN YOURSELF SISYPHUSSS! YOU HAVE DECEIVED RHE DEATH TWICE NOW LET ME GIVE YOU A SIMPLE PUNISHMENT AND CLEAR YOU OF ALL CHARGES CHARGES CHARGES ….. ( That’s echo folks 😊)

And now Zeus ordered Sisyphus to roll a boulder up a hill. Easy right? Exhilarated, Sisyphus rolled the boulder up the hill only to know that it will roll down every time he finishes. Zeus was finally able to punish the dude for his discourtesy but this time it is an eternal punishment. Death sounds sweeter right? Now the story ends here probably Sisyphus is still rolling the boulder IDK and you might be thinking how the hell this is related to becoming happy in life??? About which my patient readers, we gonna discuss next.

2) The after-analysis of the myth according to Dr. Albert Camus.

Now if you are someone like me you might have had questions like ( in deep voice 😊) “We are born in this world and taught and forced to earn marry propagate just to literally DIE one day?? Isn’t life itself meaningless??? why bother to learn, to earn if death is just a blink’s distance away?” so on and on and on…. Vecna and I could have gotten along in that aspect 😊 But not just me Dr. Albert Camus thinks the same. Well not the very same but he compares this Sisyphus’s eternal punishment to “ humanity’s futile search for meaning and truth in a meaningless and indifferent universe” IKR I find him very synonymous with my everyday sudden avalanche of thoughts! Sisyphus’s repetitive boring punishment symbolizes perfectly how we wake up every day, fight through the day’s troubles and finally wind down at night just to wake up the next day and undergo the same monotonous cycle. Happiness sounds highly indifferent as we work, earn, and consume in a boring meaningless life until one day, Thanatos chains us without prior notice.

So is this search for happiness meaningless? Does happiness even exist? To answer these questions let’s dig deeper into an interesting hypothetical situation.

Two scientists got together and invent a brain simulation just like in the Divergent series but not letting the consumer suffer in misery but the opposite effect of that. Let’s just say once you plug in the probes you will be fallen into a deep sleep and inside your head, you are taken into a world where whatever you wish will end up on your palms without any effort or hard work. You just wish and in a millisecond it will be right in front of you. Heaven right? But there’s one condition, when you plug in the simulation that will be until u die, no plugging out ever. Nutrition and other necessities will be unconsciously provided and death too will be painless. This is the hypothetical scenario. Now ask yourselves, will you sign up for an ultra-joyful simulation probed into your head till death? My answer will be, Hell no!!! Because there’s something much more important than happiness or pleasure for us humans, which is …. PURPOSE PURPOSE PURPOSE……… This hypothetical situation was later conducted as research and the scientists shockingly found out that all humans will choose purpose over pleasure because not a single human being would like to die “worthless”!! Pretty depressing huh? Bear with me a little while longer.

3) How to actually engrave the facts into our lives

Let’s just hop back to our old friend’s tale. According to philosophers, during Sisyphus’s monotonous journey sometimes when he stops for a while to rest he can see freshly bloomed flowers along the path kissed by the morning sun and bees and butterflies circling around them to suck honey and he can see how the sun starts its day with him and how sun ends his journey with him but yet every sun rise and sun set has its own unique beauty which he gets to observe, once he reaches up the mountain he can see all the forest, streams, wild animals living breathing…….. okay okay ill stop making this like some Will Smith motivational speech 😊 but still I hate to admit the fact that these philosophers make some sense. So let’s recite that quote shall we ? “ it’s the little things that make us happy the most”. Try this “little things “ theory for each and every aspect of your life. CELEBRATE little wins, DO little things for yourselves and others, SEE little things in your life, and actually appreciate their beauty like how funny your bed hair is in the morning or how pretty that dandelion swaying in the breeze trying to keep its feathers together or take a walk and see how your dog seems soo cheerful about whomever he meets on its way 😊. As Eleanor. H . Porter’s Poliana says “ The harder it gets to find something to be happy, the more interesting the game will be!”. I will wind this down with one of my all-time favorite characters in Anne with an E, Miss. Stacy’s saying,

“The quest for perpetual happiness? ……. It …….is absolutely unreasonable to expect to be happy all the time. Frankly, it’s neither possible nor realistic. You can’t know joy unless you have known sorrow. Those of us who can soar the to highest of heights can also plunge to the deepest of depths. It’s a balance… that’s the beauty of it”

HAPPY READING!