What the story of Sisyphaus illustrates

In ancient Greek mythology.

, there is a story.

Sisyphus. Because he violated the law in the heavenly court, he was punished by the great god and descended to the world.

Come and suffer. The punishment for him was: to push a stone up the mountain.

Every day, Sisyphus pushed the stone to the top of the hill with great difficulty, and then went home to rest, but in the evening the stone rolled down on its own, so the next day he had to push the stone up the hill again. In this way, Sisyphus was faced with a never-ending defeat. The great god wanted to punish Sisyphus, that is, to torture his mind and make him suffer in a fate of "never-ending failure".

However, Sisyphus still refused to accept his fate, and every time, when he pushed the stone up the mountain, the great god struck him and told him that it was impossible to succeed. Sisyphus refused to be trapped in the trap of success and failure, and thought to himself: it is my duty to push the stone up the mountain, as long as I push the stone to the top of the mountain, my duty will be fulfilled, and it is not my business whether the stone will roll down or not.

Further, when Sisyphus pushed the stone up the hill with all his might, he seemed very calm in his heart, because he comforted himself: there will be stones to push tomorrow, there will be no unemployment tomorrow, and there will be hope tomorrow.

The great god could no longer punish Sisyphus, so he let him go back to heaven.

The fate of Sisyphus can explain many things that have happened to us in life, and Sisyphus's efforts can also be a portrayal of our hard work.

Of course, tomorrow is hopeful, because tomorrow represents infinite vitality, so tomorrow. Also working means that the child struggles and works hard. If it's not tomorrow, <>

That means there's no hope. Since there is something to do tomorrow, Na Ming still hopes.

Strong but useless God is actually stupider than pigs! Sisyphaus is too stupid in his brain! If it were me, I'd use small stones to grind off the big stones little by little!

Make him lighter, or use chemical reaction to corrode the stone! Or sharpen your fists like steel and wear down the stone little by little!

Sisyphus was the king of Corinth, and he was a very resourceful man.

One day, the daughter of the river god was missing, and he came to Corinth to look for his daughter. Sisyphus knew that the daughter of the river god had actually been taken captive by Zeus. He called the river god and offered to exchange a river for his daughter's whereabouts if the river god agreed.

Then, he managed to make a deal with the river god.

Because of the leak of Zeus's secret, Zeus was furious and sent the Grim Reaper to capture Sisyphus. However, the Grim Reaper did not succeed in catching Sisyphus, but fell into Sisyphus's trap. Sisyphus kidnapped the Grim Reaper, which also led to the absence of death on earth.

Zeus sent other gods to rescue the Grim Reaper, and Sisyphus was sent to the underworld. Before entering the underworld, Sisyphus asked to return to the Sun Realm to deal with his aftermath, and Zeus agreed. After returning to the Yang Realm, Sisyphus saw that the Yang Realm was too beautiful and was reluctant to return to the Underworld to serve his sentence.

So, he secretly stayed in the Yang Realm until after his death.

Sisyphus's crimes angered the gods, who, in order to punish him, had him push a boulder up the mountain every day, and when the stone reached the top of the mountain, it would roll down again, and so on and so on and so forth, and then roll down, and then push ......Never-ending, hopeless, he is trapped in a kind of futile and meaningless, absurd reincarnation. The gods considered Sisyphus to be the most severe punishment for him to perpetuate useless and hopeless labor.

What struck me most about this story was that Sisyphus had to push a boulder up a hill endlessly. And the fact of pushing a stone up the mountain is absurd in itself, but in the face of such an absurd thing, he knows that it is hopeless and useless, but he has to push, this is a kind of sober awareness after resisting? Or is it a rebellion against the tragedy of reality?

Thinking about it, isn't life just a process of constantly pushing boulders up the mountain? That life is also absurd. And what is even more absurd is that if we don't push the boulder up the mountain, what is the meaning of our life? How do we prove our existence?

Life is absurd, and we also need to push boulders up the mountain, and it is with it that we can see our existence. Perhaps this is contradictory, but it is inevitable because we need to exist.

In reality, there are also two situations, one person knows that he is pushing a boulder up a mountain, and the other person does not know that he is pushing a boulder up a mountain. But which is more absurd or happier?

Maybe you don't know that there is a happiness of not knowing, it can be a kind of happiness of ignorance. I don't even know what I'm doing, so how can I feel pain? Maybe it will hurt and get tired occasionally, but eventually you will still get used to it, and at this time, numbness may also be a kind of intoxicating happiness.

Maybe knowing that there is happiness in knowing is a kind of awareness of your own life, and at least you can choose to dominate it. Pessimism or optimism is your choice. No matter what, the stone will always be there, and you will always need to push the stone up the mountain, and in the end, how to choose is up to you, so how will you choose?

Sisyphus. The myth is a metaphor that there is no death in the world.

Sisyphus is a character from Greek mythology, with the more tragic King Oedipus.

Similarly, Sisyphus is Corinthian.

The founder and king. He even kidnapped the Grim Reaper at one point, leaving the world without death.

Eventually, Sisyphus offended the gods, who punished him by asking him to push a boulder up to the top of the mountain, and because the boulder was so heavy, he rolled down the mountain before he could reach the top.

So he did it over and over again, never on end—the gods thought there was no more severe punishment than to perform such futile and hopeless labor. Sisyphus's life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless toil.

Brief introduction. The whole thing about Sisyphus's silent happiness is that his fate is his. His rock is his thing. In the same way, when the absurd man ponders his pain, he silences all idols.

The absurd man knows that he is the master of his own life. I left Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! We always see the weight on him. And Sisyphus tells us that the highest piety is to deny the gods and remove stones.