The song combined with the image hits really hard. You can feel that terrible feeling of the painful realization, that what you're doing is all for nothing. A never ending massacre... just like the point of the phrase.
Sisyphys was punished by zeus. He gave him a meaningless never ending task, yet Sisyphus outsmarted zeus once again by finding purpose and fullfillment in what in the eyes of a inmortal god is; torture. Just like him you can outsmart your own rock by putting in one foot after the other and pushing it as far as it can reach, because if one imagines Sisyphus happy, thats all it takes to defeat the universe itself :3
As someone who climbed all 3 towers in jump king i know your pain. But trust me when you reach the top of the tower you feel peace, true peace. If you haven't played it. I really recommend it.
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” ― Albert Camus
"we build our life on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow brings us closer to death and is the ultimate enemy; people live their lives as if they were not aware of the certainty of death. Once stripped of its common romanticism, the world is a foreign, strange and inhuman place; true knowledge is impossible and rationality and science cannot explain the world: their stories ultimately end in meaningless abstractions, in metaphors. This is the absurd condition and "from the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all." -- Albert Camus
Nope - the whole point of camus's philosophy is that the monotnous task of pushing the boulder up the mountain is the thing thats making sisyphus happy. Without it he has no purpose or drive so in fact it should be argued that - if the boulder erodes sisyphus would be filled with grief
I love how psychologically deep everything about this meme is, even this perfectly looped song represents that never ending task of doing something so pointless that you can't even stop doing it yourself. Truly, one must imagine Sisyphus happy
Ngl this is absolutely true😭 My fallout is literally stitched together, hot wired and hacked just so it can run like 30-40 different mod’s together (Xbox 1 user btw)
I know I'm late, and nobody will probably see this, but for the people that do see this, just keep going. You dont need to set amazing goals or do mind blowing things, as long as You have something to do, and find even just a sliver of enjoyment in that thing, take that sliver, and just focus on it. No matter what it is, if You stay happy, it isnt as bad as it really seems. And for the people struggling out there, even if it seems like it endlessly gets worse, just find happiness in it, no matter how bad the work is, no matter how much there is to do, stay happy knowing that eventually, You'll be able to finish it, and be happy. As long as You stay happy, nothing is horrible, since You can find happiness in it. No matter how big or small the boulder is, just remember to stay happy while rolling it.
stay strong, all feelings are temporary, it is part of life to feel sad, and part of life to feel happy. but no matter what puts you down, you’re still alive, and as long as you have the will to keep going nothing can stop you from getting back up. i wish you the best of luck in your struggle.
I dont know much but the words of great men, so let me impart two of them. As Hemingway said: ”One must, first of all, endure.” As Winston Churchill said: “You only have to endure to conquer.” Just hang in there.
Stop bitching about how life is brutal and meaningless in comment section. It's all about you being wielder of your own being. A boulder may fall time to time. But you are the only one who can make a choice of whether you're going to move a boulder or not. At the end of daily punishment, you will witness sunset on the horizon, and feel the breeze tickles your sweat. Whether it's small or not, everyday you do something. You're the sole being who can make a judgement, appreciation, and opinion over your own experience. It's all fucking yours. Finding an absolute meaning of everything is obviously impossible. But at least you can feel something out of everything you do. Life awaits you no matter what, as long as you choose to see another day.
Don't tell people to stop 'bitching'. People are allowed to talk about their problems and they're not wrong in their assessment of life. It is riddled with injustice, struggle, pain and meaninglessness. I agree their is action that can be taken to improve things but we are all in this terrible existential situation at the end of the day. Having compassion for each other and not dismissing peoples struggles is important I think.
Sending best wishes to Sisyphus on his journey of pushing the boulder to the top of the mountain. May your determination and perseverance lead you to success. Stay resilient and keep pushing forward. Good luck, Sisyphus!
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Many would kill to have such a direct purpose, a direct challenge to overcome, a goal to reach set in stone; yet finding accomplishment isn't as easy as having a boulder to push to it's peak. Life is the drive for you to act, and with nothing to act for, you are devoid of life. One must find their own challenges, and set their own finish lines, something to achieve above and beyond. To others, what you see as an monumental victory may only be a boring, meaningless footnote in their mind. But, if it at least means something to you, then... it's something worth striving for.
Technically speaking, Greek gods do die at some point, they are not eternal, as was proven with Zeus' father Chronos. Sisyphus was never killed (if I remember correctly), thus he can keep rolling that boulder over the graves of those that put him in his eternal anguish.
@@thinkandgame3627 Cronus never died. He was cut up, yes. But he'd be still very much alive in Tartarus. The titans, like the greek gods, are very much immortal. There's a difference between being Eternal and Immortal Take God, for example. He is Eternal. Always has existed, always will. And thus is also immortal. But the greek gods, while they're immortal are not eternal, as within their own mythology, they have a starting point before which they did not exist. This goes for the titans as well. The only being in Greek mythology I suppose you could say is "eternal" is Chaos, the Primordial from which ALL things spawned in that mythology
You know school is kinda like Sisyphus since once you fail that one thing it all goes down for you and you just wanna give up, this is basically the entirety of school, college, and jobs etc.
Made a comment here a month ago about how using dating apps feels Sisyphean, and here I am a month later back at square one after getting ghosted following what felt like an amazing first date. Stay strong lads, keep pushing that bolder, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
this meme explains humanity perfectly. we always develop, make ourselves comfortable, build cities and monuments and then destroy it all through war only to build it up again, and the cycle repeats over and over again
This meme came about in a very odd time in my life. This could be pretty long so bear with me if you care to. I am in my 3rd year of university and have been slowly coming to the realization that I will be living the same bleak day out for the rest of my life, it ruined me for a time. Every day I drew further and further into a depressive and nihilistic state of thought. When this meme came about, it at first only furthered these thoughts of being a helpless victim of the world and it’s uncaring nature to the lives of humans and how truly ephemeral and pointless we are. But the more I looked and dug into the history of the phrase “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” the more I realized, this meme became symbolic of the exact opposite. It took a turn and felt much more hopeful. It helped me understand my own meaning of life and that is that life has no meaning but what we make of it. As pointless as we are when paired up to the concept of infinity, we still have life, we still have a consciousness. We still have to option to live our lives in manners that are meaningful to ourselves. Live for yourself and no one else, do what makes you happy. Because in the end, when it’s lights out for the final time. Would you rather think of how pointless you were? Or would you rather think of all the good times you had, all the friend you made, your legacy? Life is finding what makes you, for a lack of better words, yourself. One must imagine Sisyphus as happy as he has a goal, a directive, and he will follow it until the end of eternity. We all have a little bit of Sisyphus in us. Just remember that if you live pointlessly then you will in fact be pointless in your own eyes.
@@Fireball_og try your best to remember that every day being similar is not necessarily a bad thing. That’s why you have to make the most out of every day, be productive, be positive. It truly is all related back to your mindset
True! You are literally in my exact same situation. It's the pointlessness that can either harm you or defend you. You can use it as a defense mechanism or a weapon against yourself. I am choosing the former. But this might loop back. Oh well, one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
yes,this made me feel as if every word ive ever spoken was just a waste i almost kms until i found this on my way. i did some digging and found out he/sisyphus pushes that bolder forever he suffer more than i did so i stop went home and listened to this thinking about all the times i made some one feel some way
Me when I was younger would never comprehend or relate to things like this, but now I’m starting to. Our lives are just an endless loop of meaningless. And even if it concludes to having little pieces of joy, I still feel like my life is truly missing something.
"Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’" John 4:13-14
@@shadowyi3264 That depends if you are religious or not. To many, they seek religion to find a meaning in their suffering, thus leading to happiness. But to many modern day people who go out of their way to reject God, they need some way to overcome that meaningless void that comes with the rejection.
I had a relationship this summer with a girl that kept bringing me down, first I had to never talk to any of my friends again because she would've get jealous, then she made me buy her a lot of expensive things from my own life savings, then she insulted me a lot, then finally breaking up with me because "I'm not loyal" while she also cheated on me. This song fits perfectly. edit: my friends forgave me
Wow. 1 million views. That's a million souls who decided to join in the fruitless, yet fulfilling tale of sisyphus. The absurdity of it all truly is enough to fulfill the masses hearts.
this song is how it feels playing through a match of free-for-all in cod, repeating getting killed by campers. spawn, die, respawn, die, over and over until your body forces you to leave the match. despite leaving being what you wanted, you can't help but feel you've suffered a worse fate than defeat. surrender.
Sometimes you just want to get away from everything, go to the mountains, find the steepest and rocky. Find a boulder that is 2 times larger than you and roll it to this incredible melody
Sadly he can't, there was a curse set to the boulder so that when it reaches near the top, it rolls down. Despite this, Sisyphus still rolls the boulder instead of giving up and doing nothing. We imagine Sisyphus must be happy if he is still working hard on this job that he knows he can never achieve, instead of just sitting around for the rest of eternity.
alot of people have been making a meme about this but personally i think its terrifying, being forced to push a boulder up a rocky mountain over and over again for eternity, not being able to die or anything it’s horrible if you think about it
think deep into it though, if you’re given one direction one thing to do, only one thing for eternity, you may think it would be awful at first, but if it’s all you can do, you may find yourself doing it anyway. it seems like an awful fate but if pushing a boulder up a mountain is the only thing you’ve ever known for as long as you can remember, it seems fulfilling to make those small steps towards the top of the mountain, even though you may subconsciously know you’ll never get there. you celebrate the small victories and continue to push the boulder anyway because what else can you do? it is the same as life, we continue to live, knowing we will never reach our true meaning, but we are happy to live here and now.
“Leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
My favorite quote is one must imagine sisyphus happy one must imagine someone doing the task and accepting it might not accomplish and you know it but you still find joy in it
We all seeing this and the hardships, even a game was created based on this. And by 23/04/2024 someone made it to the top by out-of-the-box thinking within 1 hour speedrun RTA. Life is all about choices and how you progress based on what you choose..
and also this makes alot of sense because as a animator it's really hard to animate and this is what's it's like when you animated and haven't slept for 7 days then forgot to save and shutdown your computer and your work is now gone.
Even the song name shows that struggle. "Me And The Birds", sounding like "Sisyphus and the Rock". Just him, the rock and that mountain. Things that we must imagine makes him happy.
I relisten to this song, like it is a eternity. Always pushing the rock to the top of the mountain (listen to full video) and in the end, feel the feeling of returning all it back. But also feeling that I listened to all of it, did all the way up to be able to see how beatiful things can be. Knowing I need to start again, is one of the feelings of life, to start again, put new goals.
Chronicling my experience while listening to this video on loop bc why not and I'm bored. 0 minutes in: starting my homework, hits different 3 minutes in: honestly kinda soothing, i might fall asleep lmao 8 minutes in: its felt alot longer than 8 minutes, the song is starting to turn into background noise 17 minutes in: almost fell asleep, its just so soothing (almost being 10 at night might help) 24 minutes in: i hate the chain and quotient rule 32 minutes in: almost done with the got dang chain rule, really fits well with the music 37 minutes in: scrolling through the comments, im starting to see a pattern here; everyone going through hardships, failing and trying again, over and over. They pretty consistently say something to the effect of "literally me". sure, it might feel that way, but atleast it wont be endless, thats one thing to look forward too, youll eventually get done with it, with help or not. 40 minutes in: i realize i may have come off as a smartass, i didnt mean it like that, just an observation (again dosent help thats my default state when im tired, which i am) 46 minutes in: thought i heard the music start to fade out, obviously didnt. i think im starting to lose it a bit lol 48 minutes in: with nothing else to occupy my time ive really been starting to drift off. i almost want to open another video to wake me up but that feels like cheating somehow. i guess ill do all the stuff i do before bed and drift off to it. if this is my last entry then you can guess what happened, but if not then you know that too.
Everyone's using this song to express their depressive thoughts. Meanwhile I'm listening to this as my game downloads extremely slow, laughing my ass off.
This song represents quite a lot. All though this may sound like a joke (kinda is and is also cringy) it captures something. A feeling of despair but a glimmer of hope. Just maybe you might make it, “one must image sisyphus happy” could also mean a lot of things. Never ending work that never stops coming. The struggle of loosing all your progress. But you need to continue. One must imagine them happy. One must imagine the person happy. One must belive that they are happy. Although the struggle they face is really quite a lot.
I had a relationship that lasted 2 years, and i still think bout her sometimes. But what i keep getting back in my mind is all of those sentences that she told once, and one of them all that i remember now, is one that goes like "I dont like super buffed guys really, i just like when they have abs".Since then every time i have abs workout i think about that. But now that she is gone from my life, i only feel the feeling this song gives, just painful realization that no matter how hard i workout for those abs, i cant have her. And i just end up pushing my self, saying to my self "This isn't enough". And that applies every time i workout, pushing my self, cuz deep down ik im doing it cuz i dont wanna feel weak, but even tho i can get stronger, ik that in the end ill never have her, or anyone like her, and i wont get the happiness i got back in the day. With body dysmorphia, insecurities, being "too buffed", i know that everything that i do, is meaning less. thank to that im atleast getting closer to my main focus. "stop being weak" moral of the history, use the pain as the perfect energy. Stay Safe.
This sorrow of a broken heart will always haunt you, i know from experience. Always telling you like your not good enough, that you will never deserve love not matter what you do. I don't khow if it will help you, but if she was so picky about guys based on appearance, that means she was a shitty person and that you deserve someone better then her. However that nasty mark she left you will always be with you. Its important that you don't burry it, but take care of it. That part of you is hurt and if left unchecked will lead you to a path of self-destruction and rage. Tldr: some people will hurt you, to make themselves fell better, and the demons that spawn from there betrail are not your enemies to be silenced, but hurt souls that you need to assure that everything is going to ok Hope this helps 🥲🤝🥲
Remember that being strong doesn't mean not being weak. True strength of character is also to embrace your weaknesses as true parts of yourself, and work around them.
@@konradklukowski1009 liking men with abs but disliking buff men (which i guess meant bodybuilders that destroy their body with anabolics) doesn't mean she was a shitty person
@@konradklukowski1009 She is not a shitty person, it was just a comment on the kind of physic she likes to see. I was more skinny then what i am now in that moment so she was far from being peaky. But i get your point, thanks for the comment.
Somebody once said "The insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different result"... Maybe if Sisyphus changed his point of view and found another way to finish his task he would get a "different result". If only one could imagine that...
"You go to school to leave it. Only to go to middle school. 3 years there then you're in high school. You expect to leave after that but... you have decades of your life on a job. You never truly escape work, only get through it."
PoV: you reached your checkpoint but forgot to save and game crashes. The whole process begins all over again, tries to save then computer blue screens itself. Cycle goes on and on.
