Morrie Suffering

Even in Morrie’s dying state, the slightest brush of skin to skin contact with Mitch is enough to make Morrie happy. Morrie relays that without his wife, without his nurses, and most importantly without Mitch, he would not have been able to last as long as he did with his ALS. Another theme throughout the book is that Morrie teaches Mitch to live life his own way. Morrie is disgusted by america’s lust for greed, fakeness, and violence, and teaches to establish your own way of thinking. While the O.J. Simpson case was going on, Morrie completely shut himself off from the case, and instead focused on his family and friends. Morrie built his life on the foundation of love and forgiving, two things that are shunned in America, in Morrie’s eyes. Morrie teaches Mitch that creating his own values and beliefs leads to a much more enjoyable life than accepting mainstream America. One more theme evident in “Tuesdays with Morrie” is the theme that life is full of choices. Morrie says early on in the book that he had two choices when he got sick, feel sorry for himself or do something to try and help the world. Morrie choose the second

How is a human suppose to love? Love is just a statement, a word, a word is just a sound. When you really love something, in loves you back in whatever way it has to love. But what if that love isn't good enough? Doesn’t meet your standards? "‘What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.’ I didn't think that this was true, […] but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true. So I didn't argue” (Knowles 111).  That is just life, love is something that is always there and needs to be accepted in anyway it can.

First lessons Morrie teaches is that people should accept death. Morris feels like death is a natural process and that people should not show uneasiness to people who are dying. Morrie attitude to dying is suprisilying positive and accepting even though his body is slowly deteriorating. A quote from Morrie that show people should accept death is when he says “Everyone knows they’re going to die…but nobody believes it.

Firstly, Morrie teaches about accepting death. Morrie teaches that everyone needs to accept death. One thing Morrie says is “Once you learn how to die you learn how to live” (Albom 82). I agree with this because people need to accept death because if they don’t , they are not living a good life. Morries lesson about death connects to my life because I had family members die and at first I didn’t accept that they were gone, but know I know they are gone

Even though Morrie is dying slowly and painfully, Morrie is staying positive. On one occasion Morrie tells Mitch that in the mornings is when Morrie mourns. Morrie mourns the “insidious” disease and mourns what is lost. After that Morrie cries if needed, and thinks about all the good things still left in life(Albom 57). This is exactly how to balance inhumanity and humanity.

One quote from “Perks of Being A WallFlower” that really sums up some of the problems we live with today and what revolves around us is, “we accept the love we think we deserve.”(24) Love is something that seems to always play a part in our life, whether it’s how we act towards people, or what we do in our free time, we always see it. Being in love is a great feeling that everyone should experience at one time in their life because of how it changes your outlook on life and everything correlating with it.

Who is my Morrie? This question is daunting but also light. I have thought long and hard about this but, I can't decide. Morrie in the book is a old man who knows everything about life, he knows the lessons in life, meaning of life, and doesn't fear death. Some of my Morrie's could be just the daily people in my life. So it could be my mom, she is artistic, sweet, lovable,and great at sound effects. It could be my dad, He's a musician,he memorizes movies quotes,he always knows what to say,and he's a great hugger. It could be my Grammy she has always supported me in the matter what I do.Also it might be my grandpa. He might not be the brightest minds, but he is always gotten mean to laugh. It could also be my Nana she's been fighting cancer

There are some great aphorism that Morrie makes but one of my favorites are “I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all…. It’s horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it’s also wonderful because of all the time I get to say goodbye.” (57) Even though Morrie is on his death bed and literary watching himself decay away and die, he his happy he gets to see people longer and know how he gets to die unlike a lot of people who don’t know what is wrong with them and one day just die. He could lay in bed and cry all day and no one will say anything because that is his right, but he only gives himself a tiny bit of self- pity, only a few tears and demands to get out of bed so he can start off his day in a great mood.

1.) After Morrie received his diagnosis, he asked himself: Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left? (Albom 10). What do you suppose navigates human beings in this situation toward an answer to such a question?

I like to think that Morrie’s tombstone would say one of his aphorisms, particulary, “Love each other, or perish” or “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”. In the former, Morrie always stressed to Mitch that it was okay to cry, to show emotion, to show others you care. Morrie was always reminding others to tell people how you feel. In the latter aphorism, Morrie is saying that by accepting your own death, you learn to appreciate life more. You learn to appreciate everything while you still have it: your health, relationships, nature, food, and everything you enjoy. Morrie would tell others to always find a bright side in everything they do, just as Morrie did while battling his ALS.

We also spoke about the afterlife. Morrie couldn’t walk, eat, go to toilet by himself. I have never imagined being dependency on other people. Personally, I would feel shameful if I can’t do anything by myself but for Morrie, he is embracing his own health and death. I couldn’t say anything because I don’t even know when I am going to die.

Morrie's opinion is "death is not a big deal, it is about how to accept it." I can not agree with his theory right now, but I have to admit he gets some points. Maybe I can not accept dead right now, but the force of theory is on families, friends which I think is right.

One thing that I learned from this story is that you cannot always believe what you see you have to believe what you feel. Morrie stated,”And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too- even when you’re in the dark. Even when you're falling.” I also learned that you should always look at life in a unique way. During the story Morrie is always looking at life through a different perspective such as when he realized that he is becoming incapable of doing everyday things. “...I have to look at life uniquely... I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time- and the reason- to do that.” Also through this story I learned that “the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Sometimes we think that we do not deserve to be loved and sometimes we think that love is meaningless. In the story Morrie suggests” Let it come in... Love is the only rational act.”

It seems to be without question that love is at the core of what every human desires. We seek it from the start of life, before we even know the word or emotion, in the bond of parent and child. We look for it in friendships and family relationships as we grow throughout childhood. When mature, we long for the companionship that a lifelong vow of love and marriage will satisfy. The Bible mentions love hundreds of times and places it high above almost anything else, naming it as the center of our salvation in Christ and our hope of life eternal with Him. It’s almost too simple of a concept that love matters, but as Sue Gerhardt shares throughout her book Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, somehow we lose sight of just how important love really is, and the fallout from this neglect can change a person’s life completely.

Love is a tender and resilient matter, existing in all things since the Lord created the heavens and the Earth. However, the proper ways to love would be following Jesus 's commands to always love one another regardless of race or background because everyone values love, love shapes what 's good and it is explained in the Bible of the three different and enduring kinds of love: Eros, Agape and Philos.