Absurdism

‘Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? Excellent question. Although many debate whether or not Camus ever said this, I’ve decided to ignore the semantics and explore what this actually means. …

I’m 24 years old, healthy, I’m starting my career, and have all the life’s possibilities ahead. I should be waking up fresh in the morning, going to the gym with motivation, and working towards my goals with all this youthful energy. Instead, at some point I got very aware of…

The only life lessons you need to live a good life — Albert Camus’ philosophy of the Absurd is a powerful framework for leading a fulfilling life. Hailing from Algeria, France, Camus is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. At only 44 years old, he was honored with the Nobel Prize for his influential works in literature…

No matter what words I try to use to communicate there will never be a variation that can convey exactly what I mean to convey, because the truth is, I don’t know myself what I understand. How can I be certain anything is real? How can I be certain anything…

What about God? If He exists, He is only having fun watching from whatever dimensional plane He is on, watching me over and over again how I torture myself with my ideas and my lamentations. …

The minute hand ticked. 5:14. “Well, it’s happy hour somewhere.” Cherry Pie took a swig of chocolate milk from its flask. The others grunted, a kind of laugh, but fell quickly again into somber silence. A minute slipped away. “Do you think we still go to Pie Heaven if we…

It was 2005 and Mr. Miyagi was still an enzyme or maybe a protozoa. The Carpenters were on my television set and on my table, and the birds had not eaten anything the entire day. …

Fifty pages of ‘Diogenes the Cynic,’ I chewed, digested, and purged like a bulimic as soon as I picked up my phone to lust over my Asos wishlist. …

What is absurdism? A conundrum wrapped in a riddle and stuffed into a tuba. Once upon an upside-down tea party, in the sideways realm of the Wordily Wonkaverse — a place where adjectives dined on verbs and metaphors rode unicycles — there thrived a gnarled tree called Absurdia that bore…