Tuesday With Morrie Aphorism

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. In the book,”Tuesdays with Morrie,” by Mitch Albom, he writes about his professor dying of ALS. After Morrie was diagnosed with ALS he becomes wiser. The three most important aphorisms that Morrie teaches Mitch are, forgive yourself then forgive others, ask the bird on your shoulder us today the day, and love each other or perish.

“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

‘’We all need teachers in our lives’’ Mitch said that quote to Morrie. Saying that we learn some from everybody. Morrie learns a lot before he dies because he thinks about life more. Then Mitch was always there for him.

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.

As you get older, you learn that life is shorter than you think. Researchers explain that one third of our life is sleeping and another third is working/school. This means humans are usually left with less than one third of your life which you can do things you love. Today, humans don’t understand how much time they lose doing useless things. The worst thing is sometimes you don’t even know when your end is near. You could even die today from a heart attack or die in a fatal accident. We are explaining the general truth about many observations which is known as aphorisms. In Mitch Albom’s novel, Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie demonstrates many examples of aphorisms. The aphorisms in this novel were interpreted in different ways for people to

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in” (Albom 52). Morrie and taught Mitch and others a better way to live life. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches to live life through accepting death, loving family and showing love to others.

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

This statement means as a person dies, he or she learns how to value life and therefore live a much more meaningful one. As Morrie dies, he learns a lot about how to detach from emotions. He also imparts knowledge to Mitch about learning

At his end Morrie came to the realization that death is natural and one should accept this and focus on the essentials, living as if this day was the last. He iterates this in his line “To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time… that way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living” (Albom 81). Morrie believes that people lived today like they might die tomorrow people will care less about material things and by extent they should be less greedy and kinder. While I can agree with his logic as I follow it, I cannot accept that this would work in reality. This train of thought isn’t common for a reason. The only people I know of who think like Morrie Suggests are reckless people in stories. When I read enough of the Fourth Tuesday this idea made me stop to imagine life like this. Personally, it lead to a train of thought questioning the point of life. Try as I might I had no answer, let alone one as simple as 42. I later realized when writing this line that this is likely why we seem to avoid the topic of death as it brings up too many questions about life that people don’t have answers to. These questions can be dangerous to those with a less stable mindset. This is why I cannot support this chapter in the textbook of Morrie’s final

Morrie said "The truth is…once you learn how to dies, you learn how to live." (82) Morrie says this on the fourth Tuesday in response to Mitch's question about how one can prepare for death. Morrie responds with a Buddhist philosophy that everyday, one must ask the bird on his shoulder if that day is the day he will die. The philosophy serves as a metaphor for his awareness to his death that may come at any moment. The bird itself is symbolic of Morrie's consciousness that his death is fast-approaching, and his readiness to accept it when it comes. He wants Mitch to realize that the bird is on everyone's shoulder at every moment in their life, no matter how old or young they are. When he tells Mitch that one must know how to die before they can know how to live, he meant that one must accept the possibility of one's own death before he can truly appreciate what he has on earth.

While the newspaper is still on strike and with Mitch still out of work, Morrie informs Mitch that he is sure that everybody are aware that they will at some point die even if they don’t believe it.  Morrie notes about all the violence that is taking place especially the events of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.  With all this taking place Mitch and Morrie try to focus on more meaningful things at hand.  Mitch realized that Morrie has become more dependent on an oxygen machine to help him breathe.  Mitch wants to help Morrie become more prepare to die. Morrie responds by adopting values from different religions such as Buddhist and Judaism. Morrie informs Mitch how he really never thought about death before becoming diagnosed with ALS.   Morrie

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

Morrie’s life experiences gave him a more positive outlook towards the issue of death, he didn’t see it as a horrible thing instead he say it as an adventure that he’ll gain from it taught him that death was inevitable and that we shouldn’t be scared of it. Morrie was introduced to death at a very young age and that taught him that life was short and that he should enjoy every moment of his life. In his deathbed instead of crying about how unfair life is Morrie just simply accepted it through a method he called “acceptance through detachment”. This method let him accept everything that was happening to him, instead of freaking out and hating everyone and everything for his predicament he accepted what was occurring and he experienced every

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."(Albom 81). This refers to the fact that people refuse to believe that they will someday die, and therefore, do not live their lives as fully as they would have liked and also have many regrets as they become older and their death becomes closer. This is a quote from Tuesdays with Morrie, which is a true about a man that has ALS, a disease that cause paralysis and restricts breathing causing death. This mans name is Morrie Schwartz, he is slowly dying and teaches Mitch, the author of the book, life lessons. Every Tuesday Morrie and Mitch meet up and discuss life, throughout these Tuesdays we see Morrie slowly become weaker and eventually pass away. Morrie teaches people through realizing death could happen anytime, loving family, and acknowledging money doesn’t allow happiness.