It’s funny. Underneath all the stress and the pressure of deadlines, I’m not unhappy. Not really. In the end, I chose all this for myself. But not unhappy is not happiness, writes Michelle Fu.

Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, famously despised a man named Sisyphus. The founder and first king of Ephyra, Sisyphus said to be the "craftiest of all humankind." He first incited Zeus' wrath ...

It’s disconcerting that despite severe restrictive measures to curtail imports, the trade balance persists in an unfavourable state.

I couldn’t quite pinpoint the void until I experienced my own uphill struggle, which led to a crucial realization: I believe there to be a second story of Sisyphus.

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment.

He argued that Sisyphus is no slave but an artist — that his endless alternation of the struggle to rise followed by mingled relief and acceptance of the fall and then the commitment to struggle ...

Sisyphus' struggle is motivation for Tri-City ValleyCats pitcher Stephen Still, who learned about the tale from his high school football coach, Neil Weiner, in Baton Rouge, La.

Even Sisyphus was happy, according to Camus, because “the struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.” Simply put, he had something to keep him busy.

French philosopher and author Albert Camus, in his essay " The Myth of Sisyphus," argued that despite his futile task, Sisyphus can find meaning by embracing the struggle itself.