Saturday, April 26, 2008

The struggle that is life.

High School=Take tests, get good grades, and think about nothing but the future.

Yesterday, I spent quite some time thinking about the above mentioned "equation". Then, I wondered: for what?
For struggling once again in an extremely competitive college? For struggling in an extremely competitive job? For never having true fun in my life?
Not to be absurdist, but it seems as if all we do is yearn for more struggle!
Maybe, Albert Camus was right in his interpretation of the great Sisyphus, who was condemned to the same meaningless task in hell. Maybe that is exactly what all of us humans are condemned to: the same meaningless task on Earth (don't want to be super negative and call Earth hell).
Maybe, life is absurd that way, in the sense that we all want to "get ahead" in life, but all we end up doing is yearn for more and more, never truly feeling accomplished and happy with what we have. Maybe, God, or god, or some supernatural being, or evolution created us so that we would always just keep on struggling in this meaningless struggle, trying to be top of the chain and famous, etc. I mean, why do we earn money? We do it in order to have a good life, but even when we do "have the dream life" we wanted, we always yearn for more. It's always more, more, more. We are never just content with what we have and can never truly be happy. So why? Why does it even matter?

*emoness*

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