Tuesday's With Morrie Aging

Growing up in our society today, there has been too many influencing factors to make people fear aging. Countless advertisements showcase “the next best thing to stay young”, and everybody races to buy it. Until “the next best product” is shown, and it’s a never ending cycle. The main characters in Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Albom address this topic in an entire chapter. Morrie Schwartz, one of the two main characters, gives us his view on aging. “As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay you know, it’s growth.” (118) Mitch (the author) asks Morrie how he views the fear of aging. Contrasting Morrie’s views of aging, all we see in the media is how to push off aging as much as we can, where the best thing you can do is look and act younger.

Upon searching “the difficulties of aging” on Google, I was shown countless sites of physical traits, showing people the bad side. It forces people to want to be young forever, really. Even in The Breakfast Club, a timeless movie showcasing the bond of five unlikely friends, the basket case, Allison, interjects a conversation about parenting with, “when you grow up, your heart dies”. I like this quote, because in the movie, everyone looks at Allison as sort of a nutjob. Like, this is one of the first things she says in the entire movie. It shows how teenagers from more than my generation can have the same view on something. That something is aging. These kind of views are what Morrie is trying to abolish in his last class with Mitch. Morrie’s views do not relate to Allison’s. They are the exact