Review: "The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays," by Albert Camus
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy" - so that is the solution Camus provides for the most serious philosophical problem like suicide.
A total absence of hope, a continual rejection, conscious dissatisfaction shouldn't be confused with despair, renunciation and immature unrest when the person is playing chess against death especially. The absurd person is fighting the terms of existence, the sentence handed down by non-existent. Camus proposed a trick to escape suicide, it sounds like " forgetting just what I do not want to forget" The person knows that he is playing chess against death and he will be defeated in the end obviously. But, he has an option to shut off the thought for at once. In the meantime, he may find thousand different ways to make the finishing point more tortuous, more time consuming, more forgetful about the ultimate outcome.So, the game will be more interesting to feel happy and alive.
Happiness lies in movement, in constant growth, it's not a destination.
So, for absurd people who want to play more, who want to nurture ephemeral hope, who want to be happy while living- there is always an option. It's like going deep into a continuous monotony to search for the tiny bit of difference he has never seen. The following video is helpful to review the book shortly.
