How Much of Life is Up To Us?

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• The Myth of Sisyphus (ancient Greek version) &

• "The Myth of Sisyphus" essay by Albert Camus
  

We plan, we work, we hope, yet so much seems beyond our influence. Jobs disappear, relationships end, bodies fail. When everything feels uncertain, what remains within our power?

Camus confronts this question through the ancient Greek myth of Sisyphus, condemned to push a boulder up a mountain for eternity. We'll read both the original story passed down from the Greeks and Camus's modern interpretation. In this ultimate picture of powerlessness, Camus finds something unexpected: a path to freedom and even happiness. How do we find agency in acceptance? Can letting go of control paradoxically make us more free?

Never read Camus? Don't be intimidated! That's exactly why we read and discuss as a group, to discover together what this profound thinker reveals about living fully in an uncertain world.