Records of the Grand Historian
What is the true story you want to leave behind, even if it means enduring profound disgrace?
📝ONGO's Reflection
What was it that kept Sima Qian from giving up his life, even after enduring the terrible humiliation of castration? Reading this vast history, I meet the will to live that a single human being wrote down in blood and tears. He did not record the history of victors alone. He brought vividly to life defeated heroes, hermits living in hiding, even assassins. This book is no simple record of the past, but a fierce inquiry into how we are to live and how we are to die. Within his sentences I come face to face with an indomitable spirit that pulses across the ages.
"Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather."Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian
"죽음에는 태산보다 무거운 죽음이 있고, 새털보다 가벼운 죽음이 있다."
🌱Apply It Today
Write a paragraph about the most unjust or painful moment you've endured. Look at it with an objective eye: how did that suffering forge you, and what story will it leave behind?
