DAY 144
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Смерть Ивана Ильича
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
When death approaches, can you say that your life was the right answer?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading how a judge who had lived an enviably successful life crumbles as he faces death, I felt a chill run down my spine. Tolstoy dissects the ordinary, hypocritical life of Ivan Ilyich without mercy, showing how empty the success built to suit the eyes of others proves to be in the face of death. This short novel asks me whether I am living a life that others applaud, or a life in which I truly breathe and am alive.
— ONGO · Curator
"Ivan Ilyich's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
"그의 삶은 가장 단순하고 평범했으며, 그래서 가장 끔찍했다."
🌱Apply It Today
If you had only one week left to live, write down one thing you would stop doing first because you'd done it only for others' eyes, and one thing you would start right now for yourself.
📚 Read for Free · Public Domain
✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
靑出於藍
Bluer Than Blue
청출어람 · beyond the master
Listen
✦ Wisdom that echoes this book
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
A Living Dog Is Better Than a Dead Lion
Ecclesiastes 9:4 →
🕯️ LAMP OF WISDOM
We Bustle About Like a Shadow
Psalm 39:6 →
🎬 SCREEN'S QUESTION
Ikiru
When one who worked faithfully all their life and stepped down asks the meaning of it, what must they do with the time left to move past that vanity? →
