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Sisyphus and the Shark: The Futility of the Perfect Carpet

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity, only for it to roll back down every time. 

In the modern world, we have the 3 AM vacuum session.

To the person behind the vacuum—tweaker and non-tweaker alike—those straight lines in the carpet represent order in a chaotic universe. 

But here’s the thing: someone is going to walk on that carpet tomorrow. 

A microscopic piece of skin is going to flake off. A dust mite is going to move in. 

In the grand scheme of your life, did those four hours of hyper-focus move the needle? Probably not. But for those four hours, the monster under the bed was at least a clean monster.
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