Depression comes from more time on our hands due to technology helping us stop having to do it all by hand. Well, that's a part of it anyway
Yes, Camus's answer to life's inherent purposeless is to see oneself as a main character in a grand drama (life), with all its pain & beauty
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My uncle used to say, "Make everything you do, even the slightest gesture, into a work of art". It's a great maxim to live by, I think.
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Then of course one can sublimate oneself into works of art, such as books. I'm working on a book, for which all pain is a means to an end.
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Pain is unavoidable. For all creatures. Humans suffer terribly with it. But if we can find the beauty, it makes it worthwhile, even briefly
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