Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

‘‘Tuesdays with Morrie’’ is a novel written by the author Mitch Albom. It talks about and old man and a young man who are friends and life’s greatest lesson. The novel content displays fourteen Tuesdays that Mitch the writer had with Morrie. In the first Tuesday, they both take about the world and its importance for people. In the second Tuesday, they discuss the feeling of sorry for yourself. In the fourth Tuesday, they talked about death and the desire of being alive. The fifth Tuesday illustrated there talk about family and why is it important. In the sixth Tuesday, they had a talk about emotions and how people feels specially when they are dying. The seventh Tuesday came showing how people are afraid from aging and why they are afraid …show more content…
He suffers from the ALS disease which is taking his life and health. This disease ravages Morrie’s body in a very cruel and harsh way leaving him unable to do certain jobs by himself after it hits the part that is responsible for that. Morrie understood the meaning of life from this disease and started to teach it to Mitch his dear student who became, after ignoring Morrie since finishing the university, the most person helping him as much as he could. He taught him how to appreciate being alive and healthy and how to face death. Morrie is a man who represents an ultimate wisdom. He is the type of person that shares his feelings, listens to others problems and complains with a smile that never left his face. Before he had the disease, he loved dancing and music. He used to dance with himself in a dancing club enjoying the music and people in that club would tell that this is not a professor. Morrie rejects the idea of having your own culture and that your culture makes you difference than other people. He believes that all people are the same even if they are different in their status or job. Morrie was a good father that anyone who talks to him becomes attracted to him forgetting his or her life …show more content…
It attracted me with its cover and its title. When I started reading it I found myself in another world, as I entered a person’s life and became his soul. Sometimes, I imagine myself like Mitch and see myself setting in front of Morrie learning lessons from him, and sometimes I put myself in the position of Morrie and start thinking about how to face this illness and how to be positive. Every time I pass on a quote of Morrie’s quotes I highlight it so that when I come back to read the book I read it several times and keep it in my heart. Some of the lessons I learned from this novel was that the person should accept what he is able to do and what he is not able to do, accept the past as past without denying it and learn to forgive himself and others. Furthermore, the way the person get the meaning into his life is to devote himself to loving others, the community around him and to the thing that gives you a meaning in life. Be positive and never give up from your goals because if you really want it you will make your dream happen. I want to give a big thank to the author for sharing these wise quotes with other people and a special thank for his professor for his eminent words that I will never