Tuesdays With Morrie Quotes

Tuesdays With Morrie

“There is no such thing as too late in life”(Albom 190). It is never too late to change or learn to how to accept. If you open up you can learn. It doesn't matter if you old or if you're male or female. At any moment you can learn something. In this novel the character Morrie is dealing with a disease known as ALS. There is no cure for ALS. If someone is diagnosed with ALS they most likely are going to die. Morrie was a college professor. He loved teaching. So he decided to teach one more class about how learning to die teaches you how to live. In the novel Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie teaches Mitch how to say goodbye, how to forgive and how to love family no matter what.

Morrie teaches Mitch how to say goodbye. In other words he teaches him how to let go. Morrie knows it's hard to say goodbye. Even though Morrie was the one dieing he was

comforting Mitch because Mitch was having a hard time trying to say goodbye to Morrie. “ This is how you say goodbye” (Albom 185). I believe that Morrie was trying to say that he knows it's hard to say goodbye, it's hard to let go. Even thow Morrie and Mitch knew it was one of Morrie's final days, Mitch did not want to say goodbye. Morrie knew it was going to be hard but he know that there was only one way to say goodbye. I relate to the topic of saying goodbye because in my seventh and eighth grade year one of my moms best friends from high school came to live with us because he needed help. He brought his son and daughter along with him. At first I was not thrilled about having to share my room or the house or giving up my weekends to hang with this kid. I didn't know him. I did not want to stay at home and hang with him. They lived with us for the next year and a half. As time passed I grow close to him. First we became friends then later I considered him my brother, one of my best friends. We were always hanging, going out with friends. One day I woke up to my mom telling me that they had left during the night. No warning no goodbyes no nothing. Just gone. I hated it, I hated him, I hated his dad. It hurt me to lose a friend, a brother. I could never forgive him. Over time I realized that it wasn't his fault. I realized that if we did get to say goodbye it would have been difficult. It would have been a lot harder.
On this Tuesday Morrie teaches how to forgive. Morrie believes that forgiving people is very important. Morrie believes that forgiving is necessary to move on. Morrie also regrets not getting the chance to forgive one of his best friends. “You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am” (Albom 166). I agree with Morrie. If someone is to dwell on a mistake that was made by them or someone around them they would not be able to move on. Everyone should learn to forgive and forget. I can connect to this. This story connects back to my last link. That time I talked about my friend my brother left I thought I would never get him back. One day my mom came to me and told me that they were coming back. She said that there dad told her it was a mistake and he is sorry and that they needed help again. My mom and me knew that this was the last chance we would give them. I was still angry about the last time. When they arrived I talked to him. My friend explained to me why they left. I did not like the reason but i forgave them so that I could learn to become his friend and to repair the cracks in or friendship. About the time we became brothers again and repaired everything they left again. I know it wasn't my friend's fault. But it was his dad's. About a week after they left I got a message from my friend. We started to talk about why he left again. He explained that he had no choice his dad made him. I had to forgive him because I knew it wasn't his fault.
This tuesday Morrie talks about how to love family no matter what.

Morrie believes that family is one of the most important things in life. Morrie believes that without his family that he could not go throw this disease. “The fact is there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't family” (Albom 91). I disagree with this. I believe that friends can also be a secure ground on which one may stand upon. All people have friends that they consider family. Some people have friends that consider them more family then they consider their own parents. I can connect to this. this summer when my grandpa died I had to take a week to go to Iowa to go to the funeral. I missed tryouts and a week of practice for tennis. I was shouting to make varsity. I should have been on varsity. I missed tryouts, so when I came back I was put on the bottom of the JV line up. I was forced to make my way to the top. My friend helped me practice every day tell i made it up to the top of the JV line up and he helped me through my grandpas death. In this case he was my secure ground to stand

upon.
In the novel Tuesdays With Morrie Morrie talks about saying goodbye, how to forgive and how to love family at all costs. To put it all together forgiveness, family and saying goodbye are all needed to move on through life. “There is no such thing as too late in life” (Albom 190).