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    real attainable infront of him. I wonder what the last version of him would have thought of the first version of him. What he lost, what he took for granted. I don''t know if I''m happy. I don''t feel this happiness in me, bubbling up easily, ready and willing to play like a dog going for a walk. Happiness is not easy. It is not available at all times. It has a 9-5 and a baby at home, too busy to hang out on a whim like the old days. [Whose old days?]


    [- no, 10,] ways in which my life needs to be different. But then, when will I ever have the capacity to be happy except for now. And now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.


    [Gods.] "Push this boulder" they say "up the hill [or mountain]. It is your punishment."


    [Family Guy] moment where he says "When are the going to install an elevator in this thing, right?" and the mortal guy looks confused because he''s Greek or Roman or something and has never seen Family Guy, but also, would it not be weird to see some bronze muscly dude pushing a rock up the side of the mountain for no reason? So he rushes off, looking back in confusion a couple times, and Sisyphus shrugs and keeps pushing his boulder, until he gets to the top.


    [- gods -] show up like ''Haha, sike'' and poke the boulder over the edge of the mountain/hill.


    [or god-smacked ha], then he goes back down and starts pushing.


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    [Herd Guy] rushes off, and it''s just Sisyphus and the boulder. But now Sisyphus is thinking about horses, and proms, and horse shoes, and the guy who makes good horse shoes in the town at the bottom of the other side of the mountain, and Sisyphus hadn''t even noticed that there was a town there, he was too wrapped up in the G[g]ods and the boulder and his punishment.