Dante's illustrates to us the idea of hell, making divisions and levels based on how evil a person may have been. Seeing such levels, it gets me thinking about my own life and how morally virtues or corruptly wicked, selfish, lustful, fake and treacherous I have been.

Thinking about it for a while and figuring out to which level I really belong, am I this evil? Have I been this wretched? After a while, I realized that I can't fit in just one single circle. Because I am not a mere selfish person, I am also hypocritical at times, prodigal and can be wrathful. I'm a little bit of everything - I can be harsh on myself, think about suicide and the meaninglessness of it all, can be intentionally harsh against my neighbors, I get revenge when I can, can be disrespectful against nature, I waste my blessings of food and everything else, I forge, I deceive, I'm greedy and careless– a whole lot of everything. So now I'm wondering, which circle will I be in when all hell breaks loose?

It sounds like I'm a whole lot of evil; but on the other hand, I know I'm also a whole lot of good. This Divine Comedy of Dante illustrates to us just how imperfect humans really are, nobody really is perfect and we commit mistakes everyday. But the beauty of it lies in the fact that as each day breaks – we have another chance, a new day to do better.

His idea of the Divine Comedy gives us time to reflect and realize our sin's pervasiveness and therefore makes us want to be better in order to achieve redemption. I know what my mistakes are; I certainly can fit in every circle of hell. But, I know I've also been good enough to have a chance at purgatory and even heaven. At the end of the day, when judgment day comes, only "they" can be the judge.

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