Response To Morrie Eulogy

In the article entitled, “This Old Man” Roger Angell shows readers the struggle of a man growing old. Throughout the article, the 93 year old man displays all the struggles he has faced. Angell is trying to illustrate to readers that growing old is not all fun and games. It comes with saddness, heart-break, goodbyes, and many other sad things. Another struggle that is depited throughout the auricle is that young people tend not to listen to elderly people. He feels that elderly people in a way become invisible. Angell states, “when I mention the phenomenon to anyone around my age, I get back nods and smiles. Yes, we're invisible. Honored, respected, even loved, but not quite worth listening to anymore” (Angell 17). From his life experiences

Morrie considered himself a “religious mutt”. He borrowed freely from multiple religions, and because he did this, it gave him a better understanding of death. It mad e him more calm about the fact that he was going to die. This helped Morrie better cope with the topic of death.

‘The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.’ The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes once said. Tuesdays with Morrie is exactly the book that gets me through life and what it suggests always echoes in my mind, reminding me of every word I said and affecting every decision I make.

Often, we think of older people as being smarter, wiser, and generally more mature, but this is not always the case. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger gives a number of examples that shatter this generalization, offering an alternative to age as the primary factor in one’s level of maturity. Ordinary Grace shows how maturity is a result of circumstance and does not necessarily correlate with age.

Markee states that young people may not be concerned about ageism until it affects them. The reality is that it affects them now, and has since they were born. And the further they push addressing it, the more deeply it will affect them. Supporting an elder can help the individual figure out how they will fact the issue later on. The author then lists some measure allies of elders can take to help the older community. Some statements fall in different categories about their mindset, physical, mental, and psychological health. Older people should be assumed to have the potential to be brilliant, that they have long, productive futures, and that they have given up in life. Also, older people are sexually appealing and that they do have sexual needs. Older people should also be offered to give their opinion without being interrupted. Allies should not think that memory loss or physical deterioration is the result of being old, but could be accumulated distress or illness. The author ends the essay by mentioning that allies should choose an elder that is not being supported and support them. This could be beneficial to the ally. Just as it is the duty of the dominant group to support the disenfranchised group, as in the case for white leaders to support people of color leaders, as members of the upper case should support members of the working class, younger leaders should support older

Aging is a part of our life that the majority of us do not want, but it will happen regardless of what we do. When we are a little kid, all we want to do is grow up and be a big kid. When we become older we realize that wish we never said that, and seem to wish that we could go back in time. We always miss when we were younger, when we could be childish, do stupid things, and people would not think us to be weird. Then, they thought it was adorable, seeing a little kid doing stupid and funny things. Being a kid gives a sense of freedom; we have no burden thinking about school grades, or if we are going to pass the class. On the other hand, as a college student, there are so many things to do such as assignments, homework, quizzes, exams, and maintaining grades, but as we get older we become more responsible. Aging is inevitable and all that matters is what will we do with that time. If we waste it then we will not be happy with how our life turned out and we will keep saying, “wish we could go back”. In Mitch Albom’s biography, Tuesday with Morrie, Morrie Schwartz had a better perspective on aging and embracing his age: "It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more… Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth” (Albom 118); certainly, popular culture tends to fear aging and even avoid the concept altogether, as indicated by Schwartz’s protégé, Mitch, who side-stepped his own age the closer he came to “forty,” for fear of “professional oblivion” (Albom 117). Those who wish

The passage I chose as “The Quote of the Book” is, “I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease… “It’s only horrible if you see it that way,” Morrie said. “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 good-bye.” He smiled. “Not everyone is so lucky.” I studied him in the chair, unable to stand, to wash, to pull on his pants. Lucky? Did he really say lucky?” (57) This is an amazing and important passage in the book. Morrie, in the process of dying,

In Mitch Albom's memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch displays the role of a sidekick in several unique ways by taking on what he learns from Morrie in his every day life to improve the way he looks at his own life. Morrie declares to Mitch, "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in"(Albom52). This quote means that in life it is more important to help others and give to the community and show how much you care for others, but you also have to allow people to help you and have them show you they care and love you. Applying this quote to how Mitch portrays being a sidekick, he thinks about his life and how money and his job are always on his mind. So, he realizes that what he is living for is

As I ask Vanessa about her understanding of her status as a middle-aged adult she states the following: “The bible tells us that the older women are to teach the younger women and because of that I am to seek for the advice of an older women than me.” As a middle-age adult, Vanessa has experience advice from older women than her and she has tried to help younger women by giving them her own advice. Vanessa believes that at her age she has experienced many things and if she shares her experience with younger women, they will be able to learn from her. Some benchmarks that she shares with other individuals like her is that she has lived a really active life and during this time of life they begin to get grandchildren. Something that she has experienced at this age, but that is non-normative is that she had 6 to 8 major moves within the last 14 years. However, she states that this is because “the Lord wanted me in different places.”

The sunset awaits outside the window and winter dawns upon me as I sit in my kitchen on a high stool, setting up my laptop. A pot of flowers sits outside the patio door, bowing their heads due to the cold.I am thankful I am not outside, for the kitchen is peaceful, illuminated with soft light and warm. A pan sits on the stove, and the coffee pot huffs steam. Once I get everything set up, my mom comes to join me on the high barstools. Genuinely, I see my mom as old some days but her best features: wisdom, kindness, and love, show through her wrinkles.Physically, I see my mom as the shorter type, not fat but not skinny but healthy, and tan with brown hair that has blonde highlights in it. Today, I’m interviewing my mom, Paula Krock, because she

Aging can be more than wrinkles, fine lines and grey hairs. In this photo, this woman appears to not feel confident with her age and her appearance. Makeup artists or doctors are on either side of her face, holding up cosmetics as if they were to fix up any of the “issues” that came with aging. “How can I be envious of where you are, when I've been there myself,” (Album 121) expressed Morrie to Mitch. Morrie explained to Mitch how he’d already been all of these ages and how deep down each of those parts of his life are still him in one way or another. He finds that people don't appreciate how the aging process is not only decaying. It is the act of growth in oneself, and people need to understand that than work up on the physical attributes

Look at me Lord, You have given me life, happiness, love, and on and on, just because I said yes I believe. I now tell you Father that I believe that we are ready, all things are in place we can offer the message that they can come to you, clean, free and born again new into your arms. Let the lights shine, and show the way that people can literally walk to safety in their community, seek shelter while they sort out their lives and that every time they come there they are closed to the day that they to can say.

Love in my opinion love is knowing that the person sees you and can't think of one flaw that does not make you perfect. The person loves you unconditionally, you and the person can share intimate moments without sexual gestures, you have complete trust that no matter what that person will be there sunshine or storm. This quote from “Tuesdays with Morrie” is important to me because it tells me that giving love is not in vain and eventually I will get the love I deserve and more. I also believe it is hard to allow someone to love you blindly and unconditionally because it is hard to know how someone feels especially if you have given out love and have yet to receive it. What this quote signifies to me is that giving out love sets you free

Family and friends, we have gathered here this saturday in loving memory of fishy. As you all know fishy was a goldfish who was only six years old, he had a WHOLE life ahead of him! Why oh why did he have to die so young! Ah, I'm sorry this has been quiet on me. I know that fishy wasn't as important to you as he was to me but I hope you all can understand my pain. To make this more bearable I have prepared a feast for you all, so please be kind. I know that people see Fishy as only a fish but he was so much more to me, he was a friend.

Knowing and having an understanding of what ageing stands for, remains an important step, growing-up or growing older and ageism are theories about older individuals. Ageism includes preconceptions that elderly are categorized for their age and perceived as weak, and incapable of performing tasks and needy of others (Quadagno, 2014). Another view about elderly individuals is the way they are looked down on by the younger society, i.e. elderly are not as intelligent as their younger competitive working force. People fear what they do not know and do not understand. Age transpires as something that must be lived through in order to understand what ageing means; looking back on one’s life and seeing accomplishments made,