The song combined with the image hits really hard. You can feel that terrible feeling of the painful realization, that what you're doing is all for nothing. A never ending massacre... just like the point of the phrase.

My mom when her phone breaks and she realizes all her Candy Crush levels are gone

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” ― Albert Camus

POV: you studied for hours but got a 40% on your test

I turned this on while I was playing getting over it, and every time I fell instead of being upset I laughed my ass off.

I use this song when I do my homework knowing how absurd my homework is, but I still doing it.

Scientists: "Water evaporates, forms clouds, pours down as rain, and repeats infinitely." the raindrops:

*”One day the rock will erode, and Sisyphus will be happy.”*

I love how psychologically deep everything about this meme is, even this perfectly looped song represents that never ending task of doing something so pointless that you can't even stop doing it yourself. Truly, one must imagine Sisyphus happy

POV: trying to launch a modded bethesda game after a year

To me this isnt a meme, its a brutal reality.

One must imagine Sisyphus absolutely ripped

I know I'm late, and nobody will probably see this, but for the people that do see this, just keep going. You dont need to set amazing goals or do mind blowing things, as long as You have something to do, and find even just a sliver of enjoyment in that thing, take that sliver, and just focus on it. No matter what it is, if You stay happy, it isnt as bad as it really seems. And for the people struggling out there, even if it seems like it endlessly gets worse, just find happiness in it, no matter how bad the work is, no matter how much there is to do, stay happy knowing that eventually, You'll be able to finish it, and be happy. As long as You stay happy, nothing is horrible, since You can find happiness in it. No matter how big or small the boulder is, just remember to stay happy while rolling it.

I sometimes find it hard to even imagine myself happy.

How it feels to wake up everyday:

Stop bitching about how life is brutal and meaningless in comment section. It's all about you being wielder of your own being. A boulder may fall time to time. But you are the only one who can make a choice of whether you're going to move a boulder or not. At the end of daily punishment, you will witness sunset on the horizon, and feel the breeze tickles your sweat. Whether it's small or not, everyday you do something. You're the sole being who can make a judgement, appreciation, and opinion over your own experience. It's all fucking yours. Finding an absolute meaning of everything is obviously impossible. But at least you can feel something out of everything you do. Life awaits you no matter what, as long as you choose to see another day.

This song gives me the masculine urge to push a boulder up a mountain for eternity

What's weird is that I never get tired of this. It's truly a perpetual loop of struggle, but it's a struggle that I enjoy.

The theme song for life.

Sending best wishes to Sisyphus on his journey of pushing the boulder to the top of the mountain. May your determination and perseverance lead you to success. Stay resilient and keep pushing forward. Good luck, Sisyphus!

Hmm... today i will roll a boulder up a hill for all of eternity as punishment of my arrogance

one must imagine sisyphus smiling. He alone has surpassed gods in their own game.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Many would kill to have such a direct purpose, a direct challenge to overcome, a goal to reach set in stone; yet finding accomplishment isn't as easy as having a boulder to push to it's peak. Life is the drive for you to act, and with nothing to act for, you are devoid of life. One must find their own challenges, and set their own finish lines, something to achieve above and beyond. To others, what you see as an monumental victory may only be a boring, meaningless footnote in their mind. But, if it at least means something to you, then... it's something worth striving for.

Made a comment here a month ago about how using dating apps feels Sisyphean, and here I am a month later back at square one after getting ghosted following what felt like an amazing first date. Stay strong lads, keep pushing that bolder, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

one must imagine a perfect loop ROLLING for ETERNITY

You know school is kinda like Sisyphus since once you fail that one thing it all goes down for you and you just wanna give up, this is basically the entirety of school, college, and jobs etc.

'I've just got to make it to Friday!'

If you listen to this for an hour it makes you truly respect life

this meme explains humanity perfectly. we always develop, make ourselves comfortable, build cities and monuments and then destroy it all through war only to build it up again, and the cycle repeats over and over again

Mr Beast: The first one to push this bolder up this mountain wins 1 million dollars! Sisphus:

The kind of video that you can listen to 24/7 without getting bored.

This meme came about in a very odd time in my life. This could be pretty long so bear with me if you care to. I am in my 3rd year of university and have been slowly coming to the realization that I will be living the same bleak day out for the rest of my life, it ruined me for a time. Every day I drew further and further into a depressive and nihilistic state of thought. When this meme came about, it at first only furthered these thoughts of being a helpless victim of the world and it’s uncaring nature to the lives of humans and how truly ephemeral and pointless we are. But the more I looked and dug into the history of the phrase “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” the more I realized, this meme became symbolic of the exact opposite. It took a turn and felt much more hopeful. It helped me understand my own meaning of life and that is that life has no meaning but what we make of it. As pointless as we are when paired up to the concept of infinity, we still have life, we still have a consciousness. We still have to option to live our lives in manners that are meaningful to ourselves. Live for yourself and no one else, do what makes you happy. Because in the end, when it’s lights out for the final time. Would you rather think of how pointless you were? Or would you rather think of all the good times you had, all the friend you made, your legacy? Life is finding what makes you, for a lack of better words, yourself. One must imagine Sisyphus as happy as he has a goal, a directive, and he will follow it until the end of eternity. We all have a little bit of Sisyphus in us. Just remember that if you live pointlessly then you will in fact be pointless in your own eyes.

One must imagine doing something for an eternity. For nothing. Happy.

One must imagine the boulder happy.

we all had that one dream where everything was ok

one must imagine sisyphus as a computer science student doing data structures homework

This song made me realise how many times, I just did things for nothing. How many times I wasted my time, to be in the end displeased and unsatisfied.

if this isnt played at my funeral i m going to open my coffin change the music to this and then enter the coffin again

I had a relationship this summer with a girl that kept bringing me down, first I had to never talk to any of my friends again because she would've get jealous, then she made me buy her a lot of expensive things from my own life savings, then she insulted me a lot, then finally breaking up with me because "I'm not loyal" while she also cheated on me. This song fits perfectly. edit: my friends forgave me

Actually a good workout music for pushing something heavy.

Me when I was younger would never comprehend or relate to things like this, but now I’m starting to. Our lives are just an endless loop of meaningless. And even if it concludes to having little pieces of joy, I still feel like my life is truly missing something.

One must imagine the perfect loop happy

Listening this song in loop is like pushing a circle shaped rock into a never ending mountain.

Knowing one day sisiphus might roll the boulder to the top. It fills you with determination

this song is how it feels playing through a match of free-for-all in cod, repeating getting killed by campers. spawn, die, respawn, die, over and over until your body forces you to leave the match. despite leaving being what you wanted, you can't help but feel you've suffered a worse fate than defeat. surrender.

Sometimes you just want to get away from everything, go to the mountains, find the steepest and rocky. Find a boulder that is 2 times larger than you and roll it to this incredible melody

Wow. 1 million views. That's a million souls who decided to join in the fruitless, yet fulfilling tale of sisyphus. The absurdity of it all truly is enough to fulfill the masses hearts.

Even the song name shows that struggle. "Me And The Birds", sounding like "Sisyphus and the Rock". Just him, the rock and that mountain. Things that we must imagine makes him happy.

My whole life from 4th september to 21th june:

The song hits harder after losing in a game of Hades with Sisyphus as a companion

This music changed my life.

Perfect loop to draw and erase the same line to. One must imagine the artist happy

playing getting over it has never felt so real

alot of people have been making a meme about this but personally i think its terrifying, being forced to push a boulder up a rocky mountain over and over again for eternity, not being able to die or anything it’s horrible if you think about it

No... This isnt a punishment... THIS ISNT A PUNISHMENT!

This is how my relationship is going right now. I can’t take it anymore.

imagine happiness listening to this song

5yr olds getting up the stairs: 💀 Edit: everyone saying not funny when I don't care:

suddenly had a urge to listen to this

I feel like Sisyphus, forever pushing the stone, a tale of perseverance never known.

If this isn't played at my funeral, I will outsmart death itself.

“Leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

i am fighting absolute radiance on radiant difficulty while listening to this.

Me when i woke up another day:

Really gives you the "just do it" feeling

the worst thing is that sisyphus is that he isnt even controlling his body he just feels the pain and the tiredness

My favorite quote is one must imagine sisyphus happy one must imagine someone doing the task and accepting it might not accomplish and you know it but you still find joy in it

listening to this while reading Camus' "The myth of Sisyphus" just hits different 🔥

One must imagine the prime soul happy

We all seeing this and the hardships, even a game was created based on this. And by 23/04/2024 someone made it to the top by out-of-the-box thinking within 1 hour speedrun RTA. Life is all about choices and how you progress based on what you choose..

Resisting the masculine urge to push a rock up a mountain for the rest of eternity

12 year olds after getting scammed on roblox

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Albert Camus

and also this makes alot of sense because as a animator it's really hard to animate and this is what's it's like when you animated and haven't slept for 7 days then forgot to save and shutdown your computer and your work is now gone.

Sisyphus's story really is one where it's about the journey, not the destination

сидел на уроке и как то все совсем скучно стало вспомнилась эта песня и я чуть на весь кабинет не заржал

WE GETTIN' OUTTA TARTARUS WITH THIS ONE! 🔥🔥🔥

Best workout music. Its all about realizing the pointlessness of it all, and having as much fun as you can with the time you have.

Orpheus dropping some bangers during his time in the underworlds

how it REALLY feels to use paper on rock

feels like everything that I've built crumbles before me

The life... its hard. U can feel it with this music.

Chronicling my experience while listening to this video on loop bc why not and I'm bored. 0 minutes in: starting my homework, hits different 3 minutes in: honestly kinda soothing, i might fall asleep lmao 8 minutes in: its felt alot longer than 8 minutes, the song is starting to turn into background noise 17 minutes in: almost fell asleep, its just so soothing (almost being 10 at night might help) 24 minutes in: i hate the chain and quotient rule 32 minutes in: almost done with the got dang chain rule, really fits well with the music 37 minutes in: scrolling through the comments, im starting to see a pattern here; everyone going through hardships, failing and trying again, over and over. They pretty consistently say something to the effect of "literally me". sure, it might feel that way, but atleast it wont be endless, thats one thing to look forward too, youll eventually get done with it, with help or not. 40 minutes in: i realize i may have come off as a smartass, i didnt mean it like that, just an observation (again dosent help thats my default state when im tired, which i am) 46 minutes in: thought i heard the music start to fade out, obviously didnt. i think im starting to lose it a bit lol 48 minutes in: with nothing else to occupy my time ive really been starting to drift off. i almost want to open another video to wake me up but that feels like cheating somehow. i guess ill do all the stuff i do before bed and drift off to it. if this is my last entry then you can guess what happened, but if not then you know that too.

I relisten to this song, like it is a eternity. Always pushing the rock to the top of the mountain (listen to full video) and in the end, feel the feeling of returning all it back. But also feeling that I listened to all of it, did all the way up to be able to see how beatiful things can be. Knowing I need to start again, is one of the feelings of life, to start again, put new goals.

I had a relationship that lasted 2 years, and i still think bout her sometimes. But what i keep getting back in my mind is all of those sentences that she told once, and one of them all that i remember now, is one that goes like "I dont like super buffed guys really, i just like when they have abs".Since then every time i have abs workout i think about that. But now that she is gone from my life, i only feel the feeling this song gives, just painful realization that no matter how hard i workout for those abs, i cant have her. And i just end up pushing my self, saying to my self "This isn't enough". And that applies every time i workout, pushing my self, cuz deep down ik im doing it cuz i dont wanna feel weak, but even tho i can get stronger, ik that in the end ill never have her, or anyone like her, and i wont get the happiness i got back in the day. With body dysmorphia, insecurities, being "too buffed", i know that everything that i do, is meaning less. thank to that im atleast getting closer to my main focus. "stop being weak" moral of the history, use the pain as the perfect energy. Stay Safe.

Everyone's using this song to express their depressive thoughts. Meanwhile I'm listening to this as my game downloads extremely slow, laughing my ass off.

this me teaches us that its good to be a masochist

"You go to school to leave it. Only to go to middle school. 3 years there then you're in high school. You expect to leave after that but... you have decades of your life on a job. You never truly escape work, only get through it."

this is my homework soundtrack

PoV: you reached your checkpoint but forgot to save and game crashes. The whole process begins all over again, tries to save then computer blue screens itself. Cycle goes on and on.

Somebody once said "The insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different result"... Maybe if Sisyphus changed his point of view and found another way to finish his task he would get a "different result". If only one could imagine that...

This song represents quite a lot. All though this may sound like a joke (kinda is and is also cringy) it captures something. A feeling of despair but a glimmer of hope. Just maybe you might make it, “one must image sisyphus happy” could also mean a lot of things. Never ending work that never stops coming. The struggle of loosing all your progress. But you need to continue. One must imagine them happy. One must imagine the person happy. One must belive that they are happy. Although the struggle they face is really quite a lot.

Best music ever bro

One will imagine Sisyphus happy.

Tryna take all the groceries at once to the house :

One must imagine sisyphus happy

don't close your eyes while listening to this song, i just thought "i really need to be more loveable" it will destroy your self-esteem

"Just push it around until it falls if a thing falls or A Human does just Fall And Get Up" 1955 Legend

pov your minecraft villagers got out of the trading hall and you have to put them all back

boss:our job is not bored it's very interesting the job: