Kafka An Imperial Message

Kafka believed that what people do during their life span is completely meaningless. Still he was also amazed by the meaningful things they created. In other words, he believed that the journey of life has no meaningful end but what people do during the journey is interesting. Naturally his short stories and parables acts as a mirror to these ideas. I read "An Imperial Message" and realized that these ideas are reflected to this parable too. I think we can look at this parable from two main perspectives. Before that, the parable is about an emperor who is about to die. He tells a message to someone strong near him and orders to deliver this message to us ( the reader ). This strong man tries to bring us the message but he founds himself overwhelmed with the crowd. He cannot pass them. It seems impossible for him to deliver this message but he keeps going. I think we can separate these two perspectives as optimistic one and pessimistic one. If we were pessimistic, we would think that the strong man's struggle is pointless. It is clear that he cannot pass those people and deliver the message. So he should't bother trying. If we were optimistic, we would think about the importance of journey and having a goal. Strong man is not sure if he can deliver the message. Still his emperor's last words are important and he will try to do his best. Only thing important in life are not the results. What you learn during can be equally important. These optimistic and pessimistic perspectives can be linked with Kafka's point of view I mentioned at the beginning. I fell like Kafka would be closer to pessimistic view.