Sisyphus - a reason to live.
In the depths of my memory I remember seeing a black and white spiral on a cover of a book, one that made it look cheap and poorly put together, but it intrigued me. As I read the first page, I read the next and the next and not any more than a few hours later I was finished. "L'etranger" was completed. My memory really is cloudy as there is not a spiral in sight. Camus came to me at a time where I had a cloud over me, an existential crisis which the existentialists failed to solve. Absurdism seemed refreshing and explained the internal conflict I had experienced throughout my childhood. The desire for a cosmic meaning for being on earth, contrasted with the meaninglessness of existence. Absurdism not only acknowledges it but wants us to thrive off of it, which for me, is an intellectually sexy version of nihilism. His philosophical interests in general are far more sexy than investigations into semantics, logic and other branches of philosophy because it is applicable