Maybe the struggle, the over-coming of obstacles, the concerted effort despite the vast pool of those twin dark matter evils - hostility and indifference - really is what makes all things worthwhile?
Free and easy is nice. But nice isn't enough. I never got it that in Camus' "Myth of Sisyphus" - you know the one where the dude rolls a boulder up a hill, and then when he gets it to top he loses his grip and it just rolls back down? And he does this over and over and over? I never quite got it that we are to "imagine Sisyphus happy!"
How did I miss that? I always thought Camus was using the myth to illustrate futility and the absurdity of our existence. But I didn't get that futility and absurdity would vanish or be rendered powerless if we imagined that the simple rolling of the rock makes one happy.
And well, I guess, it's true… and all those years of futility and absurdity and rock rolling that I have endured? Happiness Baby!