“Accept who you are; and revel in it.” In class, we have been reading Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. It’s about a professor, Morrie, and one of his long lost students, Mitch. Mitch finds out that Morrie has ALS, after seeing him in an interview on the show "Nightline". He travels from his home town, Michigan, to Massachusetts were Morrie lives, to meet with him. The meeting went so well that they meet for the next fourteen Tuesdays, up until Morrie passes away. During each of these meetings, they discuss a different topic about life, these topics make up the content of the book and include death, love, culture, marriage, regret and the world we live in, among many others. I interviewed my grandmother, she is 75 and lives in West Haven. …show more content…
“As you grow, you learn more” (Albom 118). Morrie is saying if you never get older, your will never learn more. Morrie believes that if he were to wish for youth, that would indicate his dissatisfaction with the life he has lived. The question I ask my grandmother was “Is aging a good thing or a bad thing?” My grandmother believes that it’s not a good thing or a bad thing. I think she means it's not a good thing or a bad thing because if you never get older you never experience anything in life that you could do when you get older, and not a good thing because you’ll have problems with yourself and eventually die. Morrie and my grandmother don’t have the same idea of aging. I learn from the book that aging is a good thing, and we shouldn’t hate …show more content…
“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family.” “It’s good, no? And it’s so true. Without love, we are birds with broken wings.” “Love each other or perish” (Albom 91). Morrie means without any kind of love, nothing would be in existence. Love is the one the foundation of everything, and without it, everything would be destroyed. Having a family's love is the best thing in life. I ask my grandmother “What is the most important thing in life?” My grandmother said family and friends are the most important thing in life and that they are the ones that give you love. She said she can depend on them for anything. Both Morrie and my grandmother things family is everything I life. I learn from the book and my interview that family is something you should be thankful
“...if you've found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.” (Albom, 118). People can keep from envying others by finding what’s good in their age in the present and not envying younger people because you are aging, “You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.” (Albom, 120). To illustrate, everyone always grows older and has the thought of if it is their last day on Earth, this is something people become worried about. “It’s what everyone worries about, isn’t it? What if today was my last day on earth?” (Albom, 64). All in all, you are always going to get older, and you have to learn the growth and perks of being old instead of battling it, or you will always be
ThThe notion of getting older, one day has too frightened me. I wonder what could I have done in the past to change the future. I reminisce of all the things I have done with the people that I love. But, at the end the day, I look forward to getting older. I look forward to the memories that I will make, which one day will be stories told between two friends or family members about their crazy grandmother Gabriella. E.B. White 's essay represents the fears that adults, but mostly parents, face when seeing children grow up and experience life the same way they once did. These nostalgic moments turn to fear of losing their youth. I believe that White 's essay is a manifestation of a mid-life crisis that fails to show what life has to offer after
Morrie remembered the days when he was a teacher and having his students come in and out complaining how miserable and how hard their lives are and some even thinking about doing suicide and also when people are young they’re not wise and they really don’t know what's happening around them in their lives and it just miserable so Morrie likes aging actually Morrie embraces aging. ¨If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.¨(Albom #118-119). Everything has a positive and a negative and I don’t mind aging but at the same time don’t want to get older I want to be a kid again and not have to worry about trying to get into college, or to get a job and what I’m going to do as a living in the future and other things that make life just a bit harder like this dumb essay but thinking about being younger and happy when everything was a lot much simpler and easier doesn’t help but I need to think about the positive and also stay positive and just embrace aging like Morrie because who knows thing might turn out better than expected. Everything has a positive and a negative and I don’t mind aging but at the same time don’t want to get older I want to be a kid again and not have to worry about trying to get into college, or to get a job and what I’m going to do as a living in the future and other things that make
Life is not easy, nor is it simple. Life is simply what one chooses to make of it. Kevin Conroy said something similar to that in his quote: “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” In the two books Night, by Elie Wiesel, and Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, the audience is shown two very different types of adversity, but adversity none the less. The novels both deal with confinement, loss, and death; those are three of the biggest adversities one can face. While both novels do deal with these adversities, they deal with them differently, and under very different circumstances. Both novels approach adversity in different ways, and they address it in different
He feels that growing old is not tied in with a negative context of falling apart physically, but about the positive aspects of growing emotionally and spiritually. From my perspective, this quote signifies that the person you are at the end of life is an accumulation of all the years compressed together, continuing to flourish with the knowledge of life’s experiences. Only with personal experiences come wisdom and
This is a mistaken view, because it causes me to put false limitations on a generation who may not look like me, talk like me, or be able to do the physical things I can do, however there are many things they can do or know that I am unaware of and could learn from. A great and prime and example of a mistaken view is this video of an 80 year old woman by the name of Paddy who auditioned fro Britain’s Got Talent. Great example of how you shouldn’t view aging as a life inhibitor.
Remember life's greatest lessons are usually learned at the saddest times. This is exactly what happened in a book called tuesdays with morrie written by mitch albom, it is a story about a college professor who teaches the meaning of life and sociology. He was diagnosed with als, throughout his journey with als he taught many life lessons to mitch. Every tuesday they would come together and talk about life. The book tuesdays with morrie contains the themes, empowerment and wisdom. Empowerment is self determination, and respect no matter who it is directed to. Wisdom is having a mix of knowledge and good judgement. Empowerment plays a big part in this story because morrie tried to stay positive throughout the rest of the time he has to live
The student, Mitch Albom, (also the author) decides to fulfill the promise he had made to Morrie after graduation, of keeping in contact. He catches a flight to Massachusetts on a Tuesday and does this for the next several Tuesdays till the death of Morrie. On those Tuesdays, classes were being held, not in the all too familiar classrooms of the college, but in the intimate setting of Morrie’s home. They would write their final thesis paper on “The Meaning of Life.” The paper was to include but not be limited to the following topics: Death, Fear, Aging, Greed, Marriage, Family, Society, Forgiveness, and A Meaningful Life. Every Tuesday when Mitch would arrive he could see the brutal deterring of Morrie’s small disease infested body. Yet the spirit of this small dying man was bigger than life itself. This confused Mitch, but as the story progresses Mitch begins to comprehend why this man with only months to live is still so filled with life.
“I felt the seeds of death inside his shriveling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillow, I had the coldest realization that our time was running out.” (Pg. 59) That is what Mitch, a journal writer for the Detroit Free Press, said as he lifted his old college teacher from his wheelchair to his recliner. His old college teacher is Morrie Schwartz, a man that is dying from ALS otherwise known as Lou Gehrig disease. As the book goes on, Morrie reaches out to people who want to talk and he teaches them about the real lessons of life, while he is lying on his deathbed. Tuesdays With Morrie is an excellent book because Morrie teaches Mitch lessons about marriage, greed, and family that young adults can learn from.
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.
Tuesdays with Morrie is a short narrative dealing with the last few months of an amazing man’s life, Morrie Schwartz. Mitch Ablom, the author, has written this novel documenting his experience of spending every Tuesday, during his last few months, with Morrie. It is a sad yet inspiring chronicle concerning the great relationship built between the two men, Morrie Schwartz and Mitchell Ablom.
“Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent,” Morrie Schwartz. In the book called Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, a college professor, Morrie, and a former student, Mitch, have an unforgettable connection tested by the approaching death. Nevertheless, Morrie greatly inspired multiple people throughout the book, including Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie is overall a heartwarming book that contains many life changing aspects. To think in a new perspective can change the view of anything in life.
Morrie is one of those persons whom I like to keep close in my heart. He is brought up in a similar situation like mine and will understand more about my feelings and struggles. His high patience to listen and provide advice would have helped me in my struggles. Morrie, Through Mitch’s book, give me hope and courage, so I am sure that as a family member he can do
Tuesdays with Morrie is a story that made me think more than any other story. Not because it was difficult to comprehend, but it made me think about what the literature meant, how what Morrie said affected Mitch, and how it affected me. Tuesdays with Morrie makes many questions roll through my head like, “Am I living my life the way Morrie tells Mitch? Am I happy with myself? Will I work to make myself happy and achieve my goals in adult life?
"Family is not an important thing. It's everything.” This remarkable quote by Michel J. Fox should be the definition of family. Family is everything, they are our motivation, the ones that will love us when others don’t, and are the ones who stick to each other as gum when times get tough. Families have the most robust connections alive. These ties are so solid, and deeply intact that they can do everything and anything. These links allow a family to influence, shape, impact, and change one’s life. The intimacy within the family sphere, shape all who are inside it, this cannot be changed, and well anything that comes from within the family cannot be changed. The family itself can control and change our views on society, influence how we view the family unit, and yet most of all impact our everyday choices. The family’s capacity of guidance can make such an abundant shift that can only be felt, and barely visible unless seen through strained eyes, that makes this connection even more inexplicable than love.