Life Is Absurd
Yet our attempt to make some sense of our labyrinth-like lives makes us focus on the here and now, says KRISHA KOPS
Maybe you kiss your attractive spouse goodbye and accompany your four-year-old daughter to her first day of school, before you leave for work and stroll down the awakening morning streets, where you get blown up. Or you cross the street thinking about the beautiful sunrise, before a speeding public transport bus kills you.
Life can sometimes be as absurd as it is short. French philosopher Albert Camus wrote, “At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” But if we have the feeling that our life is so absurd, is the logical consequence that we have to commit suicide?
Yet our attempt to make some sense of our labyrinth-like lives makes us focus on the here and now, says KRISHA KOPS
Maybe you kiss your attractive spouse goodbye and accompany your four-year-old daughter to her first day of school, before you leave for work and stroll down the awakening morning streets, where you get blown up. Or you cross the street thinking about the beautiful sunrise, before a speeding public transport bus kills you.
Life can sometimes be as absurd as it is short. French philosopher Albert Camus wrote, “At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” But if we have the feeling that our life is so absurd, is the logical consequence that we have to commit suicide?