The parable about meaninglessness

I have often found the same myth appearing in different cultures in the same form and with barely altered outlines. The Greek myth about Sisyphus appears in our language in almost the same form but with a different accent on its outcome.
Sisyphus seems to have been condemned to roll a stone up a mountain and see it fall just when it is about to reach the summit after all the hard work. He was being punished for being selfish. But the same story undergoes a transformation in our country. In it the action of the person rolling up the stones is taken to depict the futility of worldly activities and their ultimate outcome.

The character in our version of the myth rolls the large stone up the mountain everyday and would reach the summit after a day’s continuous toil. But unlike in the Greek myth he never loses control of the stone at any time. Yet after he successfully reaches the summit, he voluntarily lets the stone roll down to the base of the mountain and laughs and claps his hands.

He is called a madman in our myth, but a mad man blessed with powers and philosophical insight. There are several such stories about him in the land.
You invest everything in something that you do, but in the end it only takes a split second to destroy it all. Many things may come to destroy it, death, diseases, circumstances, interferences from others and so on.

Anyway this mad man seems to agree with our racial genius. Some in this land considers him the only philosopher worthy of note!