Morrie often expresses how he isn't afraid of aging. He sees aging as growth and something that is apart of life. Morrie isn't the type to dread or complain about things happening. He lives in the moment. he likes to experiment. There's a better approach to look at death and that's to be prepared. This can help get you more interested or involved in life while living. before Morrie's was sick he never really thought about death. No oen believes there going to die but its reality. Facing death helps you see things better, and differently. He says "learn how to die and you will learn how to live." This shows how he chose to see life and not everyone will agree. Some like to have joy thinking there going to live forever but as you get older there
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.
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.
“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.
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
The idea of death appears to be a rather taboo topic depending on the context. At least, for a majority of society. The photo chosen to represent the fear of death happen to exhibit two shadows: one is a hand while the other is a puppet attempting to escape the hand that is death “Everyone knows they're going to die, but no one believes it,” (Album 80) Morrie declares as he preaches how people should be prepared to die as they do not know when their final moment will come. If you're prepared, you will live your life to the fullest. As opposed to living in fear and not accepting the idea. Admittedly, death has that has left myself afraid and clueless. Being introduced to always be prepared to die has opened up my eyes, and others should receive from this lesson. It could possibly increase the overall quality of life, instead of hiding under the phobia. Morrie's lesson on death has definitely struck a cord, and, similar to the aging lesson, I hope I remember this lesson as time passes. Death should not necessarily be something to avoid, it should be accepted and
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.
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
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
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
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
As Morrie’s date grew more tangible, Morrie began to become more wise and more open to the world, and more self-reflecting on how he had acted over the years of his life. This usually happens to many people, but sadly, not all people get wiser with age. Many stories have this type of plot line, where someone wakes up to the world around them, and they get smarter. That was even the plot line for The Matrix movie series. But in Morrie’s case, he wasn’t the one who was waking up, it was the people around him waking up to Morrie dying, that Morrie wouldn’t die because of old age, but of a disease that has no cure. The people around him started to realize how fragile the human existence is compared to the universe, because it will carry on no matter who you are. Most people think that they are invincible, that nothing can take them out, but something simple that’s not even alive like a virus can kill you, it shows how easy it is to die. Morrie did talk about humanity’s fragile existence once in the book, talking about the Yugoslavian Civil War, “The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims … and I just started to cry. I could feel their anguish as if was my own.” Morrie did not know any of those people who were killed in the conflict,
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.
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
As I watch the airport recede below me, I think of how long it is going to take to get to Mexico City. I’m just thankful that airplanes have bathrooms, because I made sure to… “hydrate” myself... If airplanes didn’t have bathrooms… best not to imagine situations like those.