A wonderful metaphor of life.

Throwing little colored discs at chained pins located at positions deemed just difficult enough to warrant accomplishment upon success and feasible growth upon failure.

This weekend I'm heading out with the guys and playing two hundred holes of disc golf. And to continue the metaphor's continuity, I'm excited.

Though, to be fair, this excitement is intricately tied to an understanding of Camus' "absurd man". I've been thinking a lot about what's discussed in "The Myth of Sisyphus." It's one of my favorite books and discusses the myth of a man, Sisyphus, who is punished for escaping the underworld by being forced to carry a rock up a mountain only to have it then roll back down. His sentence is to continue this for all of eternity.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely.

"Camus presents Sisyphus's ceaseless and pointless toil as a metaphor for modern lives spent working at futile jobs in factories and offices. "The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious."

Camus is interested in Sisyphus' thoughts when marching down the mountain, to start anew. This is the truly tragic moment, when the hero becomes conscious of his wretched condition. He does not have hope, but "[t]here is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Acknowledging the truth will conquer it; Sisyphus, just like the absurd man, keeps pushing. Camus claims that when Sisyphus acknowledges the futility of his task and the certainty of his fate, he is freed to realize the absurdity of his situation and to reach a state of contented acceptance. With a nod to the similarly cursed Greek hero Oedipus, Camus concludes that "all is well," indeed, that "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

Thank God for the absurd.

Favorite Disc: The Beast & The Wraith
Favorite Saying: Those asshats can go fuck themselves for all I fucking care.
Perfect Sunday: Wiping the spittle from my chin after a good throw.
Favorite Outcome: When the Beast obeys me.
Role Model: Whoever names discs.
Patent Pending new Disc Name: "Platonic Bitch."

Wait for it...Wait for it.



Yeah....