The Absurd by Albert Camus

                                                       

               Existentialism is a philosophy that affects on how we exist in this world. It is also concerned on how to find ourselves and the meaning of life through our own choice and personal responsibility. And as we exist here on earth we encounter problem that may affect our daily life. If we take this roblem in a wrong way this can be a reason why we can feel being absurd. There is someone who have answers in this questions, it can help us on how we can handle this situation.
              A man named Albert Camus was  born on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi. He is a French-Algerian journalist, editor, director, author of short stories, political essayist and activist. He has a contribution to the issues in moral philosophy in his own novels, reviews, articles, essays, and speeches from terrorism and political violence to suicide and the death penalty. Camus is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of the absurd.
The absurd expresses unhappiness and causes trouble in our existence. For him, the most important philosophical question is "Should I kill myself?". Camus thinks that it is absurd to try to know, understand, or explain the world, for he thinks that to attempt in gaining rational knowledge is useless. According to Camus, people commit suicide "because they judge life is not worth living". Camus has three possible responses in this. The first choice is physical suicide. If we think that our life has no meaning or doesn't have purpose we can simply kill ourselves. The second choice is meaning beyond the absurd. To adopt a supernatural solution to the problem of the absurd through the leap of faith, which in Camus' view is it might cause death. The third choice in Camus perception, the only valid solution is to accept the absurdity and just continue living. Life he says, can "be lived all the better if it has no meaning".
In my own understanding, the absurd can inspire people who has their own problems in life or they think that their life has no meaning or useless. The three responses of Camus is to enlighten us and think of the three choices that we will choose when we are in the feeling of absurdity. Just like Camus said I believed that the only valid choice is you can just accept being absurd and continue to live. The absurd is not just telling, it gives us the idea that we should not be in suicidal position. This might help also that if we will continue living our own life, we will know are worth and the reasons why we live here in earth. Even though, we encounter struggles in our life that are repeating, we should not give up and beat the problems.
              We can do everything and anything as we believe in ourselves that we can do it with him and through him. We need to be brave to overcome conflicts in life. We are what we are so we need to accept who we are. We don't their opinion about who we are because we are born without them so we can live without them.