Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie is an inspirational book that helps open many people's’ mind and perspective of the world and themselves. Throughout this essay you’ll see the comparisons of my life and thoughts contrasted with a few of the discussions Morrie had with Mitch on their Tuesdays. Some of the discussions I could personally and deeply connect with, but the others I couldn’t as much. Every Tuesday discussion Morrie had with Mitch had a meaning and purpose behind it. Emotions, culture, and family are the main Tuesday discussion i’ll be focused on.

Many things happen in the world, and some of them create internal conflicts. In Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, the author is conflicted not getting in contact with his former teacher sooner. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank has issues. Mitch Albom and Anne Frank have differences in what they learn from their conflicts.

Forgiveness is very important throughout life. If people don't forgive, they are going to be stuck in the past always remembering about the mistake that person did. Forgiving someone can make yourself feel better because you know you forgave that person and there's no negativity between you and that person.

Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom is a memoir with meaning that will live much longer than the paper it is printed on. We learn that we must properly allocate our time and efforts into all aspects of life; shining light on what is truly important. Our protagonist, Morrie, shows us the unimportance of materialistic goods and the things we leave underappreciated.

The challenges are over lapped on top of each other, which is tougher to forgive someone that is so greatly connected to you, but learning that this person will always love you is a thought we should all keep in our minds. In the novel The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls is faced with the daunting challenge of having to forgive her father. Jeannette’s relationship with her father, Rex Walls, is not the finest. As Jeannette grows up she starts to lose faith in her father because of his alcoholism is affecting the family emotional and financially, because most of the time he spends his money on booze. It was hard for Jeannette to realize that she had no love for her father, but still forgive him for his mistakes and find a way to welcome him to her heart. Jeannette forgives her father when she tries to learn how to swim and her father dropped her into the water when she almost drowned. She forgives him and thinks of his purpose of inspiring her to learn. Jeannette thought to herself “I figured he must be right, there was no other way to explain it”. At the end of the story when Jeannette and she father meet for the last time she forgives him for “all the hell raising and destruction and chaos he created in her life”. She says “I could not imagine what my life would have be like- without him in it. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had”. Therefore, you

You did the best you could given what you knew and who you were at the time. Forgive anyone else involved. They also did their best, given what they knew and who they were at the time. We forgive, not because what we did or what someone else did was right, or excusable, or even forgivable, but because we want to move on, we want to be free and we want others to be able to do the same.

Then you will forgive them and you will hug them.

Forgiving is not always the answer. For example, Professor James K. McNulty found that “partners who forgave their partner easily were almost twice as likely to be mistreated soon after” (qtd. In Bedrick). Forgiveness is not the right answer if forgiving is just going to get that person hurt again.

In order to forgive, it’s crucial to recognize the reality of what happened and how you were affected. Accept how you felt and how you reacted. Forgiveness frees you from the addictive adrenaline thoughts of retribution or revenge can generate, as well as the destructive tendency to self-identify as a victim.

Morrie stresses the importance of focusing on love instead of worrying about the troubles in life. He best summarizes his ideas on love in a few sentences:

ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, is a disease that is also known to some people as Lou Gehrig’s disease. This disease slowly eats people up, taking away their ability to use their limbs, starting with the legs. It then moves up the body, going to their arms and then to the lungs and their head. This makes it very hard to breath and talk, and eventually kills them. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom visits an old friend who is an ALS victim, Morrie Schwartz.

Every once in a while I just seem to sit alone and drown in my own thoughts. Some are deep, some are silly. But I mostly seem to think of advice for myself to help me in my future. How I should live, how I should treat others and sometimes how some people could live a more fulfilling life. The book Tuesdays with Morrie represent strong character development, point of view, and the central theme of living a fulfilling life.

In page 108 of Mitch Albom’s novel titled Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Schwartz is asked if he had the chance to reincarnate, in what form would he come back as. Morrie’s reply is a gazelle. His choice is interesting because gazelles are one of the most underrated animals in the world. Gazelles are thin and graceful antelopes that are found in Africa and Asia. They bear resemblance to deer and are in the same family as cattle, sheep and goats. Gazelles can be identified by their curved horns, tan coats and white rumps. Often, there are stripes, spots or random markings on their coats. Although their outside appearance is gorgeous, it is not much help when it comes to fleeing from their predators. All animals rely on a certain characteristic

“I leaned in and kissed him closely, my face against his, whiskers on whiskers, skin on skin, holding it there, longer than normal, in case it gave him even a split second of pleasure” from Mitch Albom’s novel, Tuesdays with Morrie (2007). Facing death and the unknown, Morrie talks with his pupil, Mitch, about his (Morrie’s) path through ageing and then, to death. An inspiring novel of a former professor and sharing his perspectives with a younger, man’s heart softening with the professor’s words of wisdom. Discussing ageing and what it means, fearing ageing, developing a fulfilled life, death and the meaning thereof, fearing death, and obtaining a positive attitude about an inevitable life event, are all important aspects to communicate with others.

Forgiveness should be a gift which you give yourself. When you feel that forgiveness is necessary, do not forgive for “their” sake.