I loved Camus' point of view on life. He looks at life from a real, practical, standpoint, and narrows us down to our animalistic properties. When you imagine yourself looking down on our race, and seeing us as tiny little ant sized creatures inhabiting this planet, you gain a sense of how small and unimpactful we really are. Eventually our race will die, and there will be no trace that we even existed. We do not matter whatsoever in the bigger picture. We are a colony of ants in a park waiting to die during the winter.
That seems depressing, but to me it's comforting. It's nice to have an awareness of our place in the universe, and because of that we won't view of our issues as all that important because we, although it may seem crazy, are not the center of the universe. Now I'm not saying I want to live like Meursault, that guy's a douche, and he didn't get much enjoyment out of life. But he didn't see the enjoyment out of just being alive until he is about to die. There is lot's to love in this life of ours, and if I live a happy life, then die, then that's alright with me.
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