One must imagine Sisyphus happy 

Because he gets better and better at pushing the ball and doing something to perfection is one of the purest forms of joy.

Sisyphus is happy because he gets to work out eternally

I like to imagine that Sisyphus just sees heroes pass by and just waves to them with a happy smile. "Hello, stranger! How are you?"

Sisyphus has no obligations and no duties other than rolling the boulder up the hill. Nobody expects anything else of him. There are no dangers and no problems in his life. He knows exactly what every new day will be like and there will never be any surprises or unexpected complications. He has no worries.

I had no idea sisyphus's story was so extensive with all his plans against the gods, Man had the speedrun strats

0:32 a visitor

"This prison… To hold ME?"

One must imagine The Art of Imagining happy

For anyone asking what is the music used around 3:30 to 5:30 it is called "Rain in San Francisco" (:

Love the journey more than the destination. For we don't know if we'll ever reach our destination. Some might stray away, some might die along the way. But as long as we live in the moment, even a punishment such as rolling a rock uphill endlessly can give us things to enjoy. Thank you for this lesson ❤

I love all the different tellings of the story of Sisyphus, I originally heard different story of Sisyphus but this one it equally likable.

I don't think of why I'm here or where it hurts I'm just lucky to have the work

We are born to die, but the in-between is what truly matters. The act of pushing the stone is the only meaning. Whatever your stone is.

“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

had this on one of my polish classes, kinda already know why

TAT really explained this story well it was easy to understand and really short

The real treasure was the experiences we had along the way. The randomness and chaos of life is what makes it all the more interesting. Embrace the chaos and enjoy every moment of it. Nothing really matters. So why not live the way you want to. Have no regrets in your heart. Live life to its fullest. Now read it all again from the perspective of a serial killer.

cool video. Thanks for posting it, made me think about some things👍

"Sisyphus had tricks up his sleeve" *Proceeds to show a picture of a half-naked Sisyphus*

Sisyphus's confession is a reimagining of the story from Sisyphus's point of view. Where he reveals he has tricked the gods, into not being dead. And has grown content with the punishment, but dare not show that contentment to the gods.

You should make a video about Lao Tzu who says something semi-the-opposite in his "Tao Te Ching" ( I think that's what it's called if I remember right)

i understand the basis of saying religion is a way out, something to cling to, something that promises something positive in the future, but plenty of religions reject the idea of "one day we will be happy if we follow these rules" and instead offer instant comfort and a sense of fullness through markers that are independent of the outside, physical world

One must imagine Prometheus happy ☠️☠️☠️

Sisyphus isn’t happy, thanks why one must imagine it.

One must imagine Sisyphus absolutely *JACKED*

Why did this tale get so popular recently

If Sistphus stops pushing the bolder, he loses meaning to himself. If you stop pushing the bolder, you fail no one but yourself. Much like real life, if you stop trying, cheat, make excuses, you stopped the bolder, thus, you lost your meaning.

Nice vid. Really insightful. What's the background music tho? I like it, would like to know the name

Life is such a b1tch, it's fycking beyond me. I get what Camus said, but if life consists mainly of suffering, and then we all gonna end up as a meal for maggots, then yeah... Asking what's the fycking point would be ironic. It's so damn fycked up. I get to play video games all day long, but when I stop playing them, I feel like shit. I can get drunk, party hard, but after it ends, I'm gonna feel worse than initally. I get it's all about the mindset, that Democrit of Abdery didn't have shit, and he still was happy, but that's kinda a leap of faith as well. I've also heard about those "abusrd heroes" Caus wrote about, about conqueror, and shit, but idk, it's a hard pill to swallow. If I'm gonna end up as a feast for maggots, then better sooner than later, even though I'm gonna say otherwise, when I actually face death. I'm gonna notice the value of life, and I'm gonna think of all the things I didn't do but I wish I did. But now I don't feel like doing any of these (or rather to fight to get them), and that adds to this whole absurdity of existence. It's such a fyking cruel yoke. I hope the ww3 comes, then I maybe gonna get to kill some people, and feel this thrill I have never felt, or maybe I'm gonna die right off the bat. But maybe then I would live up to what Camus is saying. Live for this short thill, and be ready to die at any moment. Ehh, I wish I could just forget all of this, work hard, pursue ambitious goals restlessly, and you know, not think about bs.

6:11 BRO NOT THE MAGIC COOCHIE

This is like my life having cancer im the dude and the ball is cancer

It is still weird how Albert got to that conclusion cuz the reason why Sisyphus even got that specific punishment was because how much he tried to cheat death. his punishment of pushing a boulder is fitting because trying to run from death is a meaningless effort.

6:10 Bro is NOT pondering an orb in that image… 💀

One must imagine our dad happy

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

One must imagine the Sisyphus Boulder Happy

if only zeus could keep his pants

Effort is the reward.

If we took the rock away from Sisyphus, he would be sad.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

THIS PRISON… TO HOLD ME?

Well it's something to do isn't? Gotta fill the day, one must imagine Sisyphus happy.

'One must imagine sisyphus happy' 🗿

if albert camus was in algeria and im algerian too he made that quote so im using it again

Because there are fates so much worse than just pushing a bounder for eternity. Prometheus has his stomach gouged out and liver eaten perpetually by an eagle. Lamia - after Zeus had s*x with a queen named Lamia, Hera turned said queen into a monster with a hunger for children, including her own. Ixion - eternally bound to a burning wheel, constantly repeating a phraze I can't remember, something to do with repaying debt. Medusa - turned into a monster by Athena after being raped in Athenas temple. Name.I don't remember - put on a log over a lake, juicy apples dangle near him. He can never reach apples to quench hunger, or drink the water, forever tormented by hunger and thirst.

am from algeria and am so glad that u r talking about albert camus so people can knows him ❤️‍🩹

His philosophy which is absurdism doesn’t imply creating your own meaning but to embrace the fact that there is no meaning and keep living, which itself is an act of revolt against the meaningless universe.

Its an allegory he(Camus) used for post ww1/mid ww2 France/French Algeria as he was heavily contemplating suicide. Absurdity of life was a popular topic during and after ww1 and depression. Instead of killing himself Camus decided to turn to stoicism and accept reality as it is. One must imagine sisyphus happy because perceived meaningless in camus opinion shouldny be associated with misery. Allegory of sisyphus was chosen most likely because living in that time period was often pictured in simillar colors

The fact that Albert Camus died in a sudden car crash is the embodiment of what he spoke of in his books. The randomness and chaos of the universe, and the mortality of every man. RIP

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

It just sounds like Zeus wanted to kidnap a girl and when Sisyphus told on him he got pissed. The fact that Sisyphus was a tyrant was just really convenient.

one must imagine sisyphus as a muscular naked man carrying a 40 metric ton boulder up a mountain

Sisyphus is literally all of us when we struggle day to day. Sisyphus is happy because each day he gets a little closer to a new high, just as we get a closer to our goal, and once its accomplished, while we dont start from 0 like Sisyphus, we start something new again, which is a new kind of 0. So one must imagine Sisyphus happy, because we are ourselves happy when we roll our own boulders.

Syshiphus its basically a representation of the indomitable human spirit, so yeah, he must be happy tbh.

i think he was a man who could outthink or overcome anything including the gods so having a task that he can not finish gives him endless motivation to over come. i think he is happy cuz now he has a challenge

Man, I don’t usually like philosophy videos, but i must give a standing ovation for this one.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

At one point,he could probably get strong enough to just pick up the boulder

I heard somewhere that the punishment only lasts until he admits that he’s not better than the gods, but he’s not going to do that because he tricked them twice, so in his mind he is better, making the punishment last forever

i love how some people are literally tortured by greek gods in the most painful ways ever like there organs being pecked by eagles, and then this guy literally married his niece, murdered visitors and cheated death twice and they’re like “push this rock idk”

The story of Sisyphus is about a man who didn't want to die. The Gods, as punishment, kept him alive for eternity Sisyphus, in his own way, had won

Zeus expected him to fail and eventually give up the impossible task, Sisyphus is happy because he never gave Zeus the satisfaction of watching him give up. He defeated Zeus using the only thing humans have that the Gods don't, an unbreakable spirit even when faced with terrible circumstances.

The Sysyphus story conveys a sense of playfulness. You just have to look at it from the rock's perspective.

I’m pretty sure the reason for Sisyphus never stopping is because he does not want the gods to win. He wants to continue, as the moment he gives up pushing the boulder up the hill, is the moment he loses to the gods. Sisyphus (I think) is supposed to be the story of the indomitable human spirit and the will to continue.

One must imagine Sisyphus being jacked and beat the shit out of a vampiric GoPro

Came here just to know the meaning of a meme and ended up learning a life lesson. Thanks for this great video!

I like this meme because it presents a deep philosophical quote in an accessible meme format lol.

I'd like to imagine Sisyphus being happy. Compared to some of the other shit people have pulled in Greek myth, briefly toggling off permadeath doesn't sound that bad.

"A visitor, indeed i have slept long enough"

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.” -Marie Lu (Legend)

really good video man, keep up the good work!

Sisyphus is kinda a chad ngl. Beating the gods so often.

Even thought its been turned into a meme, it still is quite a powerful quote if you look at it. Great breakdown vid!

That wizard was pretty satisfied gazing into his "crystal ball".

now I finally understand why he laughed after beating him in Ultrakill

Roses are rede Poems are sappy One must imagine sisyphus happy

A legend about the dangers of being clever and fighting the status quo

Well at least he didn't regret a second of it...

Sisyphus is happy because he has the task of having the same thing to do over and again because essentially there isn’t anything to do in the afterlife, especially for someone who’s outsmarting the gods left, and right, it must be a supreme privilege for him to make the godz think that he’s upset at this, to save him from some harsher punishment which he so vehemently deserves

Ted ed

I'm now imagining a manga with Sisyphus as the protagonist leading a gang of those punished by the gods for the purpose of overthrowing them.

I thought Sisyphus laugh was because at least he knows the problem he has, and has only one problem. We, the living ones, have much more problems and we dont know what is coming our way next time, the fear of the unkown could be a nightmare. Anyways, nice video!

ALGERIA MENTIONED 🇩🇿 🇩🇿 🗣🗣RAHHHHHHHHHH

but what if this task became one day an easy task for him, with time the human nature of progressing always come to a point of mastering the things that you repeat, than wouldn't he become sad? or bored?

It's because the struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

Sisyphus is happy because he knows one day he won’t need to roll it, he will just pick it up.

If I were Sisyphus I would break off bits of the rock to make it smaller and easy to carry.

Arguing over who’s interpretation is right and wrong in the comments reminds me of this myth I heard of a man who pushed a rock up a hill…

It's about trying. The challenge. Not to win or lose. To play. It's the very defnition of "It's about the journey, not the desitation." Quite literary. Word for word. Playing forever. How awesome is that?

I never understood how this myth carries over to our lives. I mean Sisyphus has no choice but to live forever with the curse of pushing a boulder up a mountain. We, on the other hand, do have a choice. Each and every single one us could just end it right now. Suicide is the exit door to absurdity. We are under no obligation to find happiness in meaninglessness.

While it may not have been the original intention I have always interpreted, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy", as Sisyphus could only be happy in his punishment in our imagination. We imagine the joy Sisyphus could feel in getting the boulder an inch higher than the last time when from the from Sisyphus' point of view that accomplishment is punishment all the same as falling down the mountain to start again. In a system were the improvement of one's self can serve not purpose other than to further the struggler's suffering the joy in improvement is turned to a greater punishment that the original sentencing.

Sisyphus's struggle reminds me of the same struggle of samsara the cyclical nature of existence. His existence was changed by the gods and yet he still derives meaning from it i think thats the thing that makes me incredibly intrigued with sisyphus the meaning and struggle that allows him to experience those moments of bliss and happiness at their fullest no matter how small they may be.

So here's another thing, in ULTRAKILL, Sysiphus Prime says, "Ahh... So concludes the life and times of King Sisyphus. A fitting end to an existence defined by futile struggle, doomed from the very start... And I don't regret a SECOND of it!" I understand some of where he's coming from now.

This was extremely well put together

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy, as he has an eternity to master his craft."

This is a great video, shocked to see you only have 4k subs

Thank you for explaining this to me.

"You know I've been thinking" "Don´t imagine Sisyphus happy, Imagine him Mad!" "I don't want to push this stupid rock! And you want me to smile while I do it?!" "DEMAND TO SEE THE GOD'S MANAGER!" "YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM?!" "I'M THE MAN WHO IS GONNA CRUSH YOUR WHOLE HOUSE, WITH THIS ROCK!" "I'LL FIND A WAY OUT OF THIS HELL AND I WILL FLATTEN YOUR HOUSE DOWN"

Very good video. Even though i disagree with the sentiment, i respect the effort you've put into the video.

One must imagine sisyphus happy