Camus says the only way to beat a meaningless task is to embrace it

Sisyphus was condemned by the Greek gods to push a boulder up a mountain forever, watching it roll back down every time he neared the top. Albert Camus used the myth as a portrait of the human condition — stuck in absurd, repetitive struggle with no ultimate meaning — and argued that lucidly accepting the absurd, rather than escaping into false hope, is itself a form of freedom. His essay ends: 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus — 1942
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