Who Cares?!

Existentialism, the perfect word to summarize the famous phrase YOLO.  We live and we die, so who cares about what happens between those two points?! Just by reading a couple pages of the book, it is obvious that this is how the main character in The Stranger feels about life.  On the first page of the book the very first sentence is:

 "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." (page 3)

How can someone simply not care when there mother died? A relationship between a mother and a child is so close and so amazing that you simply cannot explain it. It's as if he just simply doesn't care about life.  He goes where he needs to go and doesn't ask questions.  He accepts things as they are and doesn't really care about how it may affect him in the future.  Another quote from the book that supports this conclusion is:

"It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed." (page 24)

Here the character clearly states that from a couple days ago until now, nothing has changed.  Life hasn't changed and it has certainly not affected him. He couldn't care less about the past events. Instead of mourning for his loss, he goes off with a girl he used to know and sleeps with her.  This supports Jean-Paul Sartre's idea of "opposing the world's meaningless with revolt, freedom, and passion."  Sex expresses a form of freedom and definitely passion.

Sartre's thoughts of "do not make illusions about the future" is also proven in the last quote.  Once again he doesn't really care about what may happen in the future.  He lives in the now and is not concerned about the past or future.  YOLO!