The Scarlet Letter
Do you have the courage to face your deepest shame and wounds, revealing them proudly to sublimate them into your own dignity?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Hester Prynne, who had to live her whole life with a crimson "A" upon her breast. At first I thought that letter a terrible brand, but as the pages turned it came to feel like a badge of honor that made her the most self-possessed and resolute of all. Every one of us lives carrying a scarlet letter of our own, something we long to keep hidden from others. Hawthorne asks us this: will we spend our lives concealing that shame until it destroys the soul, or will we embrace it proudly and transmute it into a dignity all our own?
"No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
"어떤 사람도 오랫동안 자신에게 보여주는 얼굴과 군중에게 보여주는 얼굴을 다르게 할 수는 없다. 결국 어느 쪽이 진짜인지 혼란에 빠질 것이다."
🌱Apply It Today
Honestly admit one shameful flaw or mistake you want to hide from others. Then write in your journal how it has actually made you stronger and more human.
