Sisyphus: Who Is The Huma How Free?

Growing up, we are often told that we can accomplish anything that we set our mind to. At the age of four, most of us attend school for the first time where we learn key things, such as, the importance of structure and a weekly schedule. From then on, we are compelled to attend school and get our high school diploma where we learn how to prepare ourselves for the “real world.” Some choose to continue on and go to college for the next few years. However, those who choose a different route usually go straight into the workforce and earn life experience. The majority of the human existence is spent working for someone else to achieve something that society has told us is important. Camu uses the myth of Sisyphus to question the human freedom. Like Sisyphus, the …show more content…
We spend an incredible amount of time working towards things that we are unsure will ever truly get us anywhere or make us genuinely happy. We have no idea of what the future holds, the only thing one can be certain of is death. We all understand that our lives will come to an end and all of the materials that we worked hard for and the 40 hours a week we sacrificed to a job will mean absolutely nothing. Freedom is ultimately what you make of it. If you accept that you may never reach your goal but appreciate the present struggle that you are overcoming than you are choosing your own fate. I think we can all learn something from Sisyphus, we can learn to take our struggles and turn them into our own strengths. Freedom is complex and is neither black nor white. Although, Sisyphus isn’t necessarily free, he is able to create his own sense of freedom and joy by taking that rock and making it his own. Struggle will always be one of the most valuable learning experiences in life and is inevitable as humans. By dwelling over the circumstances we have been given is choosing to not be free. If you allow this life to overcome you than you will never allow yourself to be