Analysis Of Tuesday With Morrie

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The biggest insight I got in this book is about relationships and love. This whole point will be focused on the tenth Tuesday with Morrie, where they talk about marriage. Morrie goes on to explain how our generation is with love and relationships. He explains the real realities of it all.
Well, I feel sorry for your generation. — In this culture, it’s so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they’re too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into arraign and then six months later, they get divorced. They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they’re …show more content…

I was afraid that I would be hurt again and so I didn’t let myself have feelings. I didn’t have an issue with keeping a commitment, but rather I had an issue where I was scared to get into a commitment. But I now realize that with having certain commitment issues I learned to make myself a stronger, more compassionate, and more confident person and I am so grateful that I did this because without this experience I would still let people push me around and not stand up for myself.

The reason I talked about these experiences is because I wanted to relate it to what Morrie said. At first I was the person who wanted to rush and thought my relationship would last forever. I never thought anything would go wrong. But when things went wrong I didn’t know what to do. Once I ended that relationship I was too scared to get back into another one. I never thought I would come to realize this until I read this book.

I need to start to think more positively and to not let my past define me and define what I do. Love is such an important thing to have in your life. I need to surround myself by more people who love me. Love can’t and should never be misused. Never use it unless you mean it. I need to learn more about who I am. I hope one day someone can truly love me, but I know that I don’t need someone to love me so that I can love myself. Loving myself is different from someone else’s

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