Prompt: Writing as yourself or through a character, discuss whether life has meaning and reason—or whether it's as meaningless and nonsensical (i.e., absurd) as Albert Camus believed. Given your position, consider what people can do to find happiness in life.
Story:
I think life is both meaningless and meaningful at the same time.
I say meaningless because everything is one big circle of activities and/or events. We get up, we eat, we go to work, get paid, pay bills, get stressed, freak out and sleep. Rinse and repeat. It's very repetitive and it's because of this that I think life loses its meaning.
People live and people die. People fall in love, people fall out of love. Wars come, wars go. People fight, people forget. Disasters come and then they go.
It's the nature of life. It's just one big cycle, that goes on and on and on and on with no end. Like a bad song on repeat. There's no permanency, the only thing permanent in this world is change.
The meaningful part of life is that, it's also in the nature of us people to find happiness, to find contentment, to find peace, a purpose in life.
"Living" doesn't necessarily mean doing the same things every single day of your life. Living is when you experience the beauty of life, embracing the changes in your life. Both the ups and the downs.
Because,
What's the sense of writing fast without the uneasiness of having writer's block?
What's the sense of publishing your work without the thrill of it being criticized?
What's the point of chasing love, without having the risk of losing it?
What's the thrill of riding a roller coaster without the loop-de-loops?
What's the sense of spending time with your kids, without the fact that they may be gone one day?
How can you have a rainbow without the rain?
How would we know what good music was without knowing what's bad?
How else will anyone learn if they don't make mistakes?
How would you know it was real love if your heart never broke in the first place?
How would you know what to dress up for Halloween without the scary stories we were told when we're kids?
The thing is that, it has to be balanced. How else can you appreciate the good without the bad in your life, right?
Well, at least, that's what I think anyways.
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General FictionThese are stories that I make with a pre-made prompt for me. I try to limit it to 500 words or less but most of the time I get carried away. I hope you enjoy and I'll try to keep adding new ones whenever I get the chance to revisit the site.
