"Life is a series of choices, creating stress."Whether someone agrees or disagrees with this statement depends on the person's beliefs. I personally think that it depends on the choice. Almost all the choices someone has to make during their lifetime include stress, but some silly ones do not. Life is definitely a series of choices because the choices you make defines you as a person and your lifestyle.
Many existentialists, like Albert Camus and Meursault, most likely believe that choices do not create stress. Like mentioned in my previous blogs, they basically live on the phrase YOLO. Who cares about what may happen to us? We live and then we die. This is what Camus makes the reader believe through out the book until Meursault goes to jail. From that point on, he regrets many of his decisions and eventually the trial focuses more on his soul then of his actions. He constantly repeats that he should have fixed things and respected the death of his mother a lot more than what he did. During the various trials, the judge and witnesses mention his past decisions. For example, they mention him smoking during his mother's funeral. When the jury mentions him shooting the Arab, Meursault blames it on the hot sun. He was stressed and he pulled the trigger by mistake.
You decide whether the choices you make create stress for you or not. It is something you can decide, but regardless, choices do make you and your life. You will suffer the consequences for absolutely everything you do. Some may be rewarding while others not so much.
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