Meursault was always indifferent. Meursault accepted death. Why? Meursault saw the purpose of life meaningless. That is "Absurdity"! Absurdity, how does that word sound? Pretty bad, eh? Absurdity when used like "that's absurd!" gives the feeling of negative judgment and a sense of finality. The idea of the Absurd seems to attach itself with meaningless, pointless and other such words that express a destination but without the means to get there and vice versa means but no destination. So from there I inferred that Camus does not believe in God nor any high law or universal law that are associated with a divinity, which is a path in life (either the means or the destination). So what is Absurd? The Absurd is living, a quest to find the meaning of anything wi

s box life or the right way but the box still confines. How do passions and hopes keep us in a box? These emotions limit us from going from the beginning (birth) to a true end (a true death you can say). Dying is not true death. Everybody dies but not everybody experiences true death. True death is an escape from this reality. Meditating is one way. If you truly achieve meditation, time is still and you are calm. There is nothing but you. If you live a life like that, that is true death.

If there is no point to living why do we continue to live? If this reality is absurd why don't we recognize that and commit suicide? Taking one's life shows the lack of will or reasons to live and also the needlessness of suffering. So what is living? Living is the Absurd. Living is hopelessness. Living is keeping the absurd alive. To keep the absurd alive you only have to live the absurd. 'Life will be more fully lived in

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