The Story of Hong Gildong
Am I allowing the circumstances of my birth and social constraints to determine my limits?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I reopened as an adult this exhilarating tale of a hero I had read as a child, what reached me first was the deep loneliness and sorrow of Gildong, who, as the child of a concubine, cannot call his father his father. Through Gildong, Heo Gyun pricks at the contradictions of an entrenched caste system and draws the figure of a free human being who carves out his own path. Before the wall of "impossible" that the world has set in place, Gildong's magic—leaping clear over that wall like the wind, like the clouds—awakens the suppressed freedom within me.
"If I cannot call my father 'father' and my brother 'brother,' how can I be called a human being?"Heo Gyun, The Story of Hong Gildong
"아버지를 아버지라 부르지 못하고 형을 형이라 부르지 못하니 어찌 사람이라 하겠습니까."
🌱Apply It Today
Find one limit you've set by telling yourself "that's just how I am," and take one small challenge today that turns it upside down.
