Why people live is a very important and basic question in philosophy. Under the social background of western Christianity, the answer to this question is-for long-term redemption. People are born guilty and live in this world to ask God's forgiveness. Man is a servant of God, and human nature is endowed with value by the Great God. In the hundreds of years in the Middle Ages, most European civilians, including most aristocrats, spent their lives with this idea and endowed themselves with the value of life from the perspective of God. But after the industrial revolution in the western world, great changes have taken place. As Nietzsche said, "God is dead", with the continuous development of economy, religious institutions are constantly secularized, all kinds of corruption are exposed, and the authority of God is constantly eroded. People began to doubt their long-held beliefs. In this "trust crisis" of God, "Why do people live" has once again become an unresolved issue. After that, the first world war happened in the western world. In the war, in the torrent of machinery, people's lives were easily taken away. In the face of this ruthless world, people are so small and life is so fragile. Is it really meaningful for us to live? Or was it just a meaningless accident?

Faced with this question, Camus's answer is-no, our life is still valuable-as he wrote in his book, "survival itself is the strongest resistance to absurdity." In the eyes of existentialists, the world is indeed absurd, and people are indeed born with contingency, but existence itself is a kind of value. The tearing and complexity of life are the values of human existence. As long as you give it value, it is value. I have to say that Camus is a genius. He reintegrated this existentialism into Sisyphus's myth, which brought a new interpretation to life. Sisyphus's life is a tragedy in the traditional sense. He had no choice. He pushes the stone up the hill every day and watches it roll down. Like all of us, what he does every day is actually some repetitive trivial things. For most of us, what I will do tomorrow is an obvious answer. Even in such a complicated situation, it is mixed with failure. Life is so torn and absurd. However, Camus said that this is not a complete tragedy. The reason why we feel existence is because all this gives us value. "The important thing is not to cure the disease, but to live with it." The suffering we serve day after day seems worthless to God and the world, but it is the greatest value to my own existence. Just like Sisyphus, pushing stones up the mountain every day is everything in his life. He can feel his life because he pushes stones up the mountain every day. At the moment when he pushes a stone every day, his life is highlighted. His value has not been erased because the world he lives in is so absurd. He lives, he exists, he feels suffering, and his life is valuable.

"Real life happens in tears. Life is tearing itself apart. "

I first read The Myth of Sisyphus in high school. At that time, facing the pressure of the college entrance examination, every day was a torment. When faced with questions that are repeated day after day, it is really similar to Sisyphus. In retrospect, I can still feel the "tears of life" at that time, but Camus's words gave me great courage to face all this. As he said, "what matters is not eternal life, but eternal vitality." "No fate is a punishment for people." Even if life is so "torn", only by recognizing the suffering of this life can we really fall into a kind of worthless suffering. As long as I keep a vitality of existence forever, I can say that no matter where I am, no matter what I face, my life is valuable.

Camus' thought is also of great value in today's society. "The unworthiness of the world" has gradually become a popular self-mockery, vaguely reflecting that the idea of escaping from the world has become a countermeasure for people to face the pressure of life, but in fact, when you really feel that life is unworthy, life is truly unworthy. "If life is meaningless, it is more worth people to experience." It doesn't matter what you are doing or what you are facing. It is almost inevitable to live against one's will. It is important to feel that my existence is valuable and my life is valuable. Today's society may need some more positive voices to encourage us to do more things, as Camus wrote in his book: "Say yes to life and no to the future". What really conquers us is always our absurd fear of the world, while maintaining a kind of "contempt" for the suffering of life, and all fate is subject to it.

The myth of Sisyphus will not disappear with time. In an era when office workers begin to laugh at themselves as "social animals" and the suicide rate is rising, it is necessary for us to reflect on the value of our existence. "There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is worth living is equivalent to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. " When we ask ourselves what I live for in the middle of the night, first of all, don't give ourselves an answer in a hurry. First of all, try to review the meaningless trivial things we did today and tell ourselves that "all great actions and thoughts have a trivial beginning." Then answer another question: Do I feel like I exist today? If the answer to this question is "yes", then the answer to the last question will be solved-I live for this existence.

Camus was a great writer. He used Sisyphus, who goes up the mountain day after day, as a metaphor to explain the absurdity of life. He stripped off the illusory coat of life layer by layer and exposed its absurd essence naked. However, exposing absurdity is not despair, but seeing through those joys and pains thoroughly. In Camus' philosophy, absurdity is put forward as a starting point. Starting from the absurd premise, he found a fiery home for people's hearts. "Losing hope doesn't mean disappointment. The flame of the earth can be compared with the fragrance of heaven. " Each of us deserves a flame to light our own life.