Morrie's Afraid Of Aging

“Once you learn how to die ,you learn how to live”,this quote sums up most of the lesion Morrie is trying to teach the readers. let me start from the beginning Mitch is telling us a story about his old professor that has been diagnosed with ALS.It's a disease when your body shuts down slowly . Morrie is teaching us how to live life in better ways before it's too late. The three most important aphorisms is family,importence,memories.

Morrie, despite the fact that his health is deteriorating fast, doesn’t deny the fact that he will soon die. Instead of kidding himself and just denying it, he comes to peace with the fact that he is going to leave the earth soon. He is happy that he will no longer have to be in pain. Morrie is different from most people because he doesn't clutter himself with false hopes. Instead, he approaches it with a smile on his face, knowing that the little bit of time he has

“Death is as natural as life, It’s part of the deal I made.” (Albom, 164) Tuesdays with Morrie is about an elderly man dying of ALS teaching people how to live. Morrie teaches people to live life through accepting death, showing love to loved ones before they’re gone and that showing emotion is all right and important.

The focus throughout Tuesdays with Morrie was on life. Many might see it as the story of death, but it is actually the story life. Morrie might talk a little on how he meets death, but what he is talking about is living at the end of his life. Mitch writes, “Now here we were . . . . . . Dying man talks to living man, tells him what he should know.”(Albom, 133) When a timer is placed on Morrie’s remaining days, he obtains a dying man’s perspective on what is truly important in life, and how to incorporate in life this importance. I looked for parts of the book that pertain directly to my life; I focused on this concept while reading this book. My thesis remained elusive. There wasn’t a Tuesday that jumped out at me, and then I came to the

Everyone dies in the end and people know it, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. Morrie has a lot of opinions about death as he is a dying man and I find all of them are so true. We never count our days as almost done and always believe that we are so far from that day. We do what we are supposed to do and walk around with a meaningless life, until that day comes automatically. My primary school teacher once told me to live like there’s no tomorrow. We should treasure our time and what we have and treat our days like we can die anytime with no

Wisdom is an absolutely valued and loved trait in our community and is associated mutually with the elderly people. In both texts, King Lear by William Shakespeare and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, one of the main characters in both texts, King Lear and Morrie Schwartz, were experienced to develop intelligence afterwards undergoing suffering and troubles. However, both these men began their investigations in different ways. Morrie infinitely emphasized the worth of community and comfort, meanwhile King Lear drill these as light as a feather pursuits which nothing should go wrong which would affect his ego. Morrie was disappointed unexpectedly things were in his family, meanwhile King Lear did not care to the point of queasiness for it and granted it. Morrie viewed death as far and wide natural and eventually a person to look up to in future, at the same time King Lear again wanted to reside the career of a king notwithstanding dividing his land and building between his daughters. Despite being as absolutely different in both perspective and beliefs initially, both King Lear and Morrie came to materialize true wisdom by experiencing a specific of continuance which we act with regard to as a phenomena; death.

Morrie knows from the beginning that his illness is not curable, but he still goes on with his everyday life. Morrie states that “Everyone knows they’re going to die” (Mitch 81). This quote tells us that Morrie knows he will die sooner or later and he will have to face it. Even though Morrie knows his life will end soon, but he still keeps his faith. Most people lose faith at this time in life and Morrie instead teaches to keep faith.

Even though Morrie has this terminal disease, he continually looks on the bright side of things and uses it to teach others. Through all the death that Elie has to go through, he still keeps hope that they will be rescued at their next place. When Morrie hears his disease referenced as horrible, he says otherwise and talks of how he is lucky to have all this time to say goodbye (Albom 57). Morrie shows here how he sees the true humanity through the sorrow and is happy for every moment he is given. He even continues to use it as a teaching topic to show others how they should live their lives. “People’s morale was not so bad: we were beginning to get used to the situation. There were those who even voiced optimism”(Weisel 20). Even through all that Elie and the Jewish people faced, they always maintained their hope. While many were scared, there was always optimism that things would be okay and back to normal eventually. This optimism shows the humanity of the Jewish people and Elie, even though they faced true evil and inhumanity. The happiness of Morrie and the optimism of Elie and his people, show that even in dark times people will maintain their

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

Not only have I learned a lesson from Tuesdays with Morrie, but also Professor Trenary has learned that Morrie’s life did not stop, neither did the world begin to stop. This meant that one must appreciate the true value of life, by facing stress head on, appreciate the greater moments, do not waste the breaths when young. The appreciation for the moments one has, not to sweat the small things, cannot enjoy these minutes because you are eventually faced with mortality, because everyone is going to die in the end. In fact, life is merely

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.

Morrie thinks that if you don't age you don't live your life to potential. Aging shows that you have experienced life. People are scared of aging. they don't want to be in pain or have to depend on others to do things for them or get wrinkly. I'm not scared of aging. I don't lime the idea of it but I accept that its going to come. Morrie accepted aging and he's okay with it. he thinks its him growing. "As you grow, you learn more" The older you are, the smarter you are. Old people have experienced life. Morrie thinks that people who wish they were young again have unfulfilled lives. Aging isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. You just need to know how to deal with it and accept it.

Sogyal Rinpoche stated “When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now...and come to face the truth of yourself. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.” Death is imminent. Many people today fear death for various reasons. Some people are able to accept it, where others deny its existence. Some people spend their lives working towards the coming of their death, and their life thereafter, where others spend there lives doing everything they possibly can to make the most of their time on earth. In Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, the lead character Morrie Schwartz was diagnosed with the fatal disease Lou Gerrig’s Disease, also know as ALS. Although many people

I’m sure everyone has a fear of aging. The thought of slowly losing your independence, fear of looking old, the fear of inevitably dying is something young people fear every day. We are convinced that it’s such a bad thing, and that we should do everything in our power to stop it from happening.

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