Absurdism : Another look at the meaning of life.

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(The idea of this post is mostly based on Albert Camus's idea of Absurdity) Human being, from the time of immemorial, has been trying mightily to find meaning of life, to assign reason for the universe. These search would eventually fork out to two paths : Some would choose to deny the absurdity and meaninglessness of life while trying to find comfort in religious dogma. This is what Albert Camus call as a "leap of faith". An intellectual laziness. It is a form of deceiving one's own self, hiding from the truth and the ultimate barrier of one's freedom. Some would choose to embrace the absurd condition. The acknowledgment and the acceptance of life's absurdity would provide the ultimate freedom for human and provide him the ability assign to his life, a meaning! Camus introduce the idea of "acceptance without resignation" - We accept the absurdity of life but still choose not to resign from living and to live "without appeal". It is in a world devoid of "higher meaning" and "judgmental afterlife" that man can be truly free and live a life by his own meaning and purpose.