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Knowing one is the master of their life, knowing no higher destiny, it returns one back to their activity, where burden will find them once more, as will all the other phenomena at different and overlapping intervals. From this, Sisyphus concludes “all is well”. This fidelity raises his rock, and offers indifference towards the universe. Each aspect of the world being a world of its own.

When lucid folk contemplate their torment, living this existence and listening to the silence of the universe, various little voices spring up from the earth. Joy and sorrow sowed into their words and constitutes diverse experiences, this should be acknowledged, seeing the melancholy and delight in the ephemeral phenomena we live.

Happiness and the absurd are both within existence and have equal exchange value. One can be found in the other. With lucidity of the absurd and happiness, one can discover the diversity of existence, how there is more out there to exhaust. This leads to seeing “of fate a human matter” to be navigated by people.

The struggle of existence is the memory of unity, longing for a nostalgia, and striving for happiness (this is the absurd). Sorrow fills Sisyphus when hid memories spark this longing for nostalgia, the memory of the earth he was pulled from. This “crushing truth” can lessen via acknowledgement, via lucidity.

Sisyphus is tragic due to his lucidity, knowing the futility of rolling that boulder uphill. Camus imagines Sisyphus contemplating this reality as he descends down the hill. His fate mirrors the contemporary worker, doing the same task each day, living an absurd existence, being able to contemplate one’s life when breathing-space is available.