
Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday according to the same rhythm-this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. “Begins”–this is important. Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time inaugurates the impulse of consciousness.
-Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Bend and you will be whole
Curl and you will be straight
Keep empty and you will be filled
Grow old and you will be renewed