Life Lesson's Tuesdays With Morrie

Morrie chose to live everyday as if it was his last, because in reality any day could have been. Morrie stated “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” (82) This statement reveals his outlook about his final days on earth. Morrie decided to become more involved in his life, once he accepted the fact he was going to die. Morrie took a good look at his life and determined what was truly important to him. Morrie chose to not waste his final days fearing the inevitable, he wanted to spend time making the most of it. Morrie also stated “Lear to forgive yourself and to forgive others.” Morrie wanted no regrets. He wanted to correct the wrongdoings of his past. Morrie learned to forgive others, and more importantly himself. He was able to free his conscience allowing him to live more fulfilling final days. Morrie did everything he could to make the most of his last days. He spent his hours teaching his friends and family about life's important lessons. Morrie said “Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?” Morrie spent the last year of his life with people he loved. Even in his weakest moments he wanted to be surrounded with love and affection. Morrie realized his death was inevitable, and did not wallow in self-pity. Unlike King Lear, Morrie truly lived a life of no regret, and did not isolate himself from those who loved and cared for him.

When was the last time that you had a true heart to heart with someone? When did you last truly feel an emotion? How many times have you sent a laugh to someone through the phone without even smirking? The world we live in is becoming less and less human. As technologies develop we develop with them and find ourselves to be lost without electronics. This is leading us down a path that will dehumanize the modern population leaving the human race more like robots. I believe that Tuesdays with Morrie may be able to help change the path that we are on.

“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. if you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say ‘All right, its just fear, I dont have to let it control me. I see it for it is.”(Albom 105) Tuesdays with Morrie is about an old man dying of AlS teaching a younger man, Mitch, how to love, forgive, and be grateful. While reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I found many examples of what someone can learn by reading the book. There are many lessons to be learned throughout the entire novel.

“Most of us walk around as if were sleepwalking we really don't experience the world” (Albom 32 ) Said the wise man Morrie that had many life lessons to teach. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches people to live life through showing emotion,forgiving others before its too late and giving love to those around us.

The book, Tuesdays With Morrie sets out to discover the thoughts of Morrie Schwartz and answers his views on questions such as: are you satisfied with where you are in life. are you content with your surroundings, the people in your life and even yourself? Do you fear death or are imartacail to that fact of life? While reading an excerpt from this book the reader can ask themselves these questions too, and compare and contrast their answers to how Morrie (a well rounded, educated, college professor) views similar topics in his later life.

To begin with, the first important aphorism that Morrie is “Once you learn how to die you learn how to live”. He was saying if they knew they’re going to die they would think and live differently. In fact, Morrie said “everyone knows they’re going to die ‘’ he said again but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently’’(125).

Many people learn many things in many different ways. Most learn in school or church, some learn in asking questions, but I believe the best lessons are taught from a good friend. Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying professor, Morrie Schwartz, to his pupil, Mitch Albom. Morrie teaches Mitch the lessons of life, lessons such as death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, society, forgiveness, and a meaningful life. This is a story of a special bond of friendship that was lost for many years, but never forgotten and simply picked up again at a crucial time of both Morrie's and Mitch's lives.

In the Ninth Tuesday, Morrie mention that he “believed in being fully present,” as I read this myself I could see that whenever I spoke to people, I was fully present in conversations with my family or friends. There were moments in which I look back and see that I was too focused on my problems or daydreaming that I did not have the time to pay attention to what others told me. There are moments in which, I will be having a conversation with someone, and I will be texting someone else and not pay attention to the other

In conclusion, Morrie’s aphorisms as a whole have impacted my life greatly. The first aphorism that did so is “ Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.” The next aphorism is “You’re not a wave, you are part of the ocean.” The final aphorism is “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” All of these aphorisms have affected my life greatly, by showing me that I’m not that important or that relationships continue after death. Now for the answer to the question I asked at the beginning of this paper; Have you ever read a book that changed your life? I have, and the book is called Tuesdays with

Morrie was an old man, and he was dying of ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Mitch Albom was a workaholic who loved his work too much. Mitch had kept a promise to his professor to keep in touch with him, but ever did, and sixteen years later, Mitch turned on the TV one day to find his old professor, Morrie, talking about his final project: death. This sparked Mitch to think about his old professor, and would soon be the inspiration the famous book Tuesdays with Morrie, based on the true story about Morrie’s last lesson, teaching Mitch about life.

Explained: When people understand that death will occur, then they will spend there life doing things with meaning and not walking around half-asleep. Then, they will learn they only have a specific time to live so they should live life to the fullest and do things that are enjoyable.

Within this novel, Morrie embraced his mortality with “love, acceptance and open communication” as he gave the reader a glimpse into what he considered to be “The Meaning of Life.” Using Mitch Albom as a vessel to pen his “own culture values,” Morrie was able to define the contradictions between others vision of “popular culture values” and his style of truly living through “life, death and reincarnation.” With the use of materials obtained from the course, this writer was able to summarize various observations about Morrie’s “final lecture” on life, death and family amidst his perceptual understanding that reorganized “aging as growth and not

At this part of the book Morrie is very sick, and close with the object of dying. He asks Mitch why the whole world is so afraid of dying, and tells him, “Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.” He says that the world is just walking around as if we are sleepwalking, and the only way someone could look at the world differently is realizing that they will die one day. The meaning is pretty obvious in what he says. “Once you learn that you are going to die, you will start to live life to the fullest.” Someone does not have to be in a situation where they might die soon in order to be able to live their life happily. I do not agree with this advice, and it does not connect to my life. This statement or aphorism is not something I agree with because someone can know how to live their life to the fullest if they are not dying. I know many people who are not close to death but are living life to the fullest and know that they live and love life sufficiently. I do not take my life for granted, and I am not very close with death. I do know that I will die someday, but that is not one of my main reasons that I feel that way about

At his end Morrie came to the realization that death is natural and one should accept this and focus on the essentials, living as if this day was the last. He iterates this in his line “To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time… that way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living” (Albom 81). Morrie believes that people lived today like they might die tomorrow people will care less about material things and by extent they should be less greedy and kinder. While I can agree with his logic as I follow it, I cannot accept that this would work in reality. This train of thought isn’t common for a reason. The only people I know of who think like Morrie Suggests are reckless people in stories. When I read enough of the Fourth Tuesday this idea made me stop to imagine life like this. Personally, it lead to a train of thought questioning the point of life. Try as I might I had no answer, let alone one as simple as 42. I later realized when writing this line that this is likely why we seem to avoid the topic of death as it brings up too many questions about life that people don’t have answers to. These questions can be dangerous to those with a less stable mindset. This is why I cannot support this chapter in the textbook of Morrie’s final

In the story Tuesdays with Morrie there is a sweet old man named Morrie. Morrie was a psychology teacher until he was diagnosed with ALS a lethal paralyzing Disease. Even though Morrie knew he was going to die it did not stop him from wanting to still teach the world about the final lesson in life which is death. When Morrie went on tv to share his lesson with the world, one of his old psychology students named Mitch Albom saw it and went to go visit his old professor. When he did Morrie decided to also teach Mitch the same lessons he wanted to share to the world and Mitch decided to make a book called Tuesdays with Morrie about Morrie’s life lessons. Some of the lessons Morrie teaches can be applied to other people's lives including mine. Morrie teaches people to live without regrets, accept aging as growth and to not fall for culture’s lies.