The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Has my life truly been for myself, or merely a show for others?
📝ONGO's Reflection
A judge who had lived an enviably successful life, confronted at the threshold of death by a terrible realization. When I first read this story, it took my breath away, as if the bare face of my own life had been caught out. We thrash about, always, trying to live as plausibly as everyone else, but before death all that veneer collapses, helpless. By asking how we shall die, this book, paradoxically, presses upon us most fiercely and relentlessly the question of how we are to live right now. Open it when you have lost the meaning of being alive.
"Ivan Ilyich's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
"이반 일리치의 삶은 가장 단순하고 가장 평범했으며, 따라서 가장 끔찍했다."
🌱Apply It Today
If you've overcommitted to a plan just to please others' eyes, cancel one of them today. Then spend that freed-up time on rest that's entirely your own, at least 30 minutes.
