{"id":138,"date":"2003-10-05T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/05\/sisyphus-shrugged\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T16:37:14","slug":"sisyphus-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/05\/sisyphus-shrugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisyphus Shrugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are free and responsible for your own destiny.  Trust in God and you are doomed, I have never found him when I needed him the most.<\/p>\n<p>Sisyphus pushed the rock up  hill everytime, only to find it tumbling back to its original place. The night had no end and he just had one task, to keep it pushing up till it came tumbling down, crushing him, only to push it up all over again.<\/p>\n<p>I once tried to push an obstructive rock down the hill only to find that the rock  takes me down with itself, so much for all that work. It would have been better if I just went past the rock,  change the course and have the wonderful view again.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I won&#8217;t find my burdens again. They will spring up at unexpected places, in absurd ways at un-wanting times Happiness and absurdness indeed go hand in hand. The struggle to remain happy in itself is so absurd, the moment you stop struggling, happiness follows you. The moment you stop desiring, all your desires get fulfilled, but does one really want that?<\/p>\n<p>Men and women struggle and desire not for the end result, but for the road it takes to reach the goal. The moment the goal is achieved, its futile.<\/p>\n<p>This universe without its creator seems so impossibly sterile to the them,  that they wont even think of alternate ways. They keep on carrying the burden uphill and downhill, every time getting squashed by the rock in the process and still refusing to look beyond the rock.<\/p>\n<p>Think for yourself Sisyphus, and you will find an alternate world without the rock, without the burden and without the absurdity of state of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are free and responsible for your own destiny. Trust in God and you are doomed, I have never found him when I needed him the most. Sisyphus pushed the rock up hill everytime, only to find it tumbling back to its original place. 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