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It's not what you do that matters, It's what you do not.

idk who said this but this hit real hard.

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Beauty Will Save The World -Fyodor Dostoevsky

Virginia Woolf, Flush

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“What is born must likewise die. For I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. I must come like an hour, and like an hour must pass away.”

— Epictetus

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Excerpt

From an essay for school.

The Human Condition is the condition of Sisyphus, doomed(or blessed?) to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. Sisyphus is blessed because he knows that he will never achieve his task, (it is designed so that he has to roll the boulder forever.) yet he persists. He accepts that he will most probably never achieve his task, but recognizes that virtue lies in the pursuit of perfection. He defies the gods by not giving them the pleasure of watching him give up and quit. Albert Camus says we must imagine Sisyphus happy. Because there is no point in him trying to push the boulder up the hill. He can and should quit. But he does not. He rejects Nihilism and finds virtue in the pursuit of his struggle and is content. what do you think of my slightly different take on this? Because Sisyphus chooses to push the boulder up the hill, he gives his life purpose and meaning. He is a type of inferior Uber mensch because he isn't psychologically superior, just happy and content with his purpose.