BT21 Interceptor

One Day II

SISYPHOS is a man out of the Greek myths. He has slipped away from death several times and angered the gods, so Hermes forced him into the underworld and made him roll a stone up a hill. The problem is that said stone always rolls down again when Sisyphos is about to reach the top. He's damned to roll the stone up the hill for all eternity.

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Namjoon focus

"Did you ever read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphos?" Jin asked him.

The doc and he sat on the bridge and enjoyed their break while everyone else was doing some kind of cleaning.

"Yes, his idea of questioning life itself as the base of philosophical thinking was quite refreshing," he replied and looked over to the hazel-haired.

Jin snorted. "It's interesting that you point out exactly that idea."

"What do you mean?" he asked the older. Was that not the central topic of the book?

"Suicide is not the central theme," Jin corrected his guess, "In fact, Camus never gives an answer to whether life is worth living or not. He's fascinated by the absurd and by the idea that one could understand that life has no meaning and is just a repetition of the same things, that it's absurd, -"

"-but still decides to go on," Namjoon ended the phrase. "Just like Sisyphos."

"Right. He also points out that it's quite funny how the ones who found a reason to live are the ones who tend to die for said reason," the doc went on. "I always laughed about the irony of that thought."

"What do you want to say?" he asked the beauty. Jin was uncommonly serious.

"Is it stupid of me that I'd rather die from an attacker's hand than harm someone? Even if it's to save Earth?" The doc's voice had been barely audible, but Namjoon still had heard him clearly.

He had never found the other more beautiful than in this very moment. The physician's decision was neither logical nor heroic, but completely pure. And he adored that.

"You're the most beautiful creature I even met, Kim Seokjin."

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Albert Camus book 'The Myth of Sisyphos' is quite an interesting philosophical book. If you ever feel like reading some philosophical pamphlet put that on your reading list. Though I don't know if it's available in English. (German: Der Mythos des Sisyphos)