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by nature, but some burdens we can select and perhaps at first that may not that may not sound that wonderful

That you get to choose a burden but really I think it's everything.

It's the difference between selecting a purpose

and succumbing to an expectation.

I'll put it this way. You might be familiar with the plight of Sissophis from Greek myth.

He's the guy who's punished by the gods in a rather cruel way. He's forced to push a boulder up a mountain and then when he gets to the top he gets no respite.

He has to undo all of his toil, he has to watch the boulder roll back to the bottom of that mountain

and do it all over again for all of eternity. It's pretty shitty. Existentialist philosopher Kammu famously

re-told this myth of Sissophis in his book, you guessed it, the myth of Sissifis to illustrate

how absurd and pointless life is. He contended that it is only through recognizing that life

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