{ONLINE} How Much of Life is Up To Us? The Myth of Sisyphus

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👉 Use the code "spokanemeetup" if you are unable to pay, the session will be no cost. All registration fees go directly to expanding Premise to communities nationwide.

📖 Readings:

• The Myth of Sisyphus (Ancient Greek version)
• The Myth of Sisyphus (essay by Albert Camus)

⏱️ Preparation: Approx. 3 hours (*this reading is slightly longer than most Premise session but well worth the time!)

### 🪨 How Much of Life Is Up to Us?

A Premise Conversation

Every day we make countless choices—from what to eat for breakfast to how to respond to unexpected challenges—yet we also live within limits we never chose: our families, our bodies, our historical moment, our mortality. This tension between agency and constraint sits at the heart of human experience, raising questions about responsibility, meaning, and how we navigate the space between what we can and cannot control.
This session explores two versions of “The Myth of Sisyphus”—the ancient Greek story and Albert Camus’s modern reinterpretation—to examine what it means to live with awareness of life’s limits.

In the Greek myth, Sisyphus is condemned to an eternity of futile labor, pushing a boulder uphill only to see it roll back down. Camus transforms this punishment into a meditation on freedom and meaning: if life is absurd, he argues, we must imagine Sisyphus happy—creating purpose through defiance and persistence itself.

Together we’ll ask:

• What do we truly control, and what must we learn to accept?
• Can meaning exist without a larger purpose?
• What does it look like to live fully, even within constraint?

Join us for an evening of deep conversation about freedom, fate, and the strange joy of pushing our own boulders.