Tuesdays With Morrie Life Lessons

When you show love to someone it is an opportunity to show what God’s love looks like. It is a time to show God’s character in you. He wants us to be a reflection of him.

‘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.

When you are unable to function without aid of someone you feel lifeless. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Morrie a retired psychology professor from Brandis University is dying from ALS. A student Mitch is back for his final lesson from his old teacher. This lessons topic is the meaning of life. When faced with his known fate Morrie refused to stay in bed and was very active. He said “When you’re in bed you’re dead.”(Albom 131). I had a life experience where I was very sick and I realized his meaning of lifelessness and your dependency on others.

Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom is a memoir with meaning that will live much longer than the paper it is printed on. We learn that we must properly allocate our time and efforts into all aspects of life; shining light on what is truly important. Our protagonist, Morrie, shows us the unimportance of materialistic goods and the things we leave underappreciated.

I walked straight out of that bar and headed for the airport; Oxford had accepted me on full scholarship, and it was time to go. As I approached the airport the almost intolerable roar of the planes jetting off the runway filled my already burning ears.

The Harper Collins definition is, “The chief purpose of love is to bring one’s neighbor into communion with God. True self-love and love for God are coincident or coextensive.” This definition says that to love others you have to bring others to God, just as St. Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the gospel at all times. When

Tuesdays with Morrie illustrates the importance of forgiveness in forming and maintaining a healthy relationship.​

In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie felt like as you age and begin your life you don't think about always enjoying life and living to the fullest. Morrie lived his life to the fullest and he's life with aging. As Morrie aged he saw how much he enjoyed his life. He also wouldn't want to go back to his young age and relive it. As Morrie told mitch, "I had my time in my thirties, now it's my time to be seventy-eight. Morrie wasn't upset to age he enjoyed it. Morrie enjoys because he gets to look back and see all the things he accomplished and all the memories. He has so many so experience he doesn't want to take back. Morrie has embraced aging. Morrie had lived his life to it's fullest potential. Morrie realized he was going to age and just had to

Funerals have been a long running tradition in many cultures and societies after a loved one has passed. In the book “Tuesdays with Morrie”, by Mitch Albom, the main character, Morrie, chose to have a living funeral after receiving the news that he had ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a nervous system disease that weakens muscles and impacts a lot of physical functions finally proceeding to death. A living funeral is held before the person has passed, so the person who is soon to pass can hear all the wonderful things that their friends and family have to say before they pass. Living funerals aren’t practiced as much as the classic funeral because the views on a living funeral are not anywhere near as popular. Living funerals for most can create a sort of awkward and emotionally degrading experience. Then again, I feel like seeing a loved one in their final moments is a very hard experience. Having a living funeral can raise lots of questions as to why someone would elect to have one instead of having a “regular” funeral. Morrie made the correct decision to have a living funeral and the main idea of a living funeral should be just as accepted as a “regular” one.

In today’s prevalent culture, many people often seem to rate their life following a scale set by society. However, in a New York Times bestseller, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, the main character Morrie Schwartz personifies the true meaning of life. Morrie, in this heartfelt memoir, is a walking character of his own aphorisms. While it may seem that Morrie is accepting his diagnosis, he strives everyday to live his life to the fullest.

Most of the time love is mentioned as a mushy thing, that only soft people have, but as Morrie has said, “[We need] to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in….We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. [But] love is the only rational act.’” (16). Love is an important thing in people’s lives, and if people don’t have love, there’s nothing. All there is hate and anger. When it comes to love, it will only come naturally, after everyone learns how to give it and let it in. The world will be a better place and a more accepting place when people just learn about

Morrie describes life as a tension of a rubber band pulling in both directions to Mitch. "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else..." (Albom 40). What he is saying is life is just a constant battle between what someone must or are expected do and what someone wants to do. These things are often different. However Morrie also says that "Love alway wins" (Albom 40) when Mitch asks who wins. This could means that in the end, though most people will stay in the middle of the two ends for most of their lives, they always end up doing the thing they want to do instead of what they must

Morrie wasn't afraid of aging he thought the older you get the wiser and stronger a person starts to develop. You learn things when you get older, such as being a man as a young boy you're to young to understand a lot of things but as you progress over time and grow bolder you start to understand a lot of things. Quote" Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life". Basically Morrie implying that find out who you're as you get older your knowledge and understandment gets stronger & stronger. Morrie was never afraid of aging because he was a quick learner he grew stronger and fast in learner, he knows all their about having a great life.

My morrie mentor is my sister, Suzanne. She is very dear to me and to others around her. She is a determined athlete and an even more devoted Christian. She explains her favorite quote is the verse, 2 Corinthians 2:14, "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ." This quote is special to her to multiple ways in her life. She conveys that it reminds you what you involve yourself with, you do it for the glory of God. She is a volleyball coach for Southside-Batesville and gets reminded of this quote often. She refers back to playing volleyball and even now coaching that you give your all, because your goal is to succeed. You give the success to the Lord, because he gave you the strength to obtain that goal. She found it one

Morrie and I first met at the Zhengzhou City Library in my hometown, during the summer in my first middle school year. It was an incredibly hot summer, and the library, which had powerful air conditioners and plenty of books for me to read and entertain, became an ideal place to spend my time. When the sun ferociously tried to roast people on the street, I enjoyed the cool air inside the library and leisurely read the books I liked. Then, one day, as I was wandering among myriad books and looking for an interesting one, I found Professor Morrie, quietly smiling at me at the far end of the book shelf.