Book of Life
The Book of Life
What is life? Some consider it just to be a living, breathing and moving organism. Others make life out to be a gift that humans can wake up happy every morning to loved ones without any worries. With all kinds of different life styles how do people really know the right way to live life? People learn to overcome obstacles that life contains thanks to different cultures, religions and more. Society learns from the pasts mistakes in order to get by in life. It is the life lessons, inspirational quotes and conflicts that allow us to do these incredible things like overcoming our obstacles. The novel Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Albom is valuable because it contains examples of those three morals.
Throughout the book mini life lessons are talked about. Every Tuesday Mitch visits Morrie they talk discuss a different topic such as death, love, money, and many more. Each life lesson taught by Morrie seems to really impact Mitch as he always seems to end up agreeing with what Morrie says like when he said “You know dying is just one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily, that’s something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.”(Albom, 35) The life lesson here is that life is short and full of wanted and unwanted surprises. With that being said, people should be going out having fun and experience new things because life can be taken away shockingly at any random time. Another lesson that Morrie talks about is “Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, and you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed by what comes back.”(Albom, 128) That Tuesday’s topic was about money and how it is not the most importan3t thing in the world. The most important thing is to try putting yourself out for others. It is believed that when you make sacrifices for other people, good things will come back to you. This lesson
What is life? Some consider it just to be a living, breathing and moving organism. Others make life out to be a gift that humans can wake up happy every morning to loved ones without any worries. With all kinds of different life styles how do people really know the right way to live life? People learn to overcome obstacles that life contains thanks to different cultures, religions and more. Society learns from the pasts mistakes in order to get by in life. It is the life lessons, inspirational quotes and conflicts that allow us to do these incredible things like overcoming our obstacles. The novel Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Albom is valuable because it contains examples of those three morals.
Throughout the book mini life lessons are talked about. Every Tuesday Mitch visits Morrie they talk discuss a different topic such as death, love, money, and many more. Each life lesson taught by Morrie seems to really impact Mitch as he always seems to end up agreeing with what Morrie says like when he said “You know dying is just one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily, that’s something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.”(Albom, 35) The life lesson here is that life is short and full of wanted and unwanted surprises. With that being said, people should be going out having fun and experience new things because life can be taken away shockingly at any random time. Another lesson that Morrie talks about is “Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, and you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed by what comes back.”(Albom, 128) That Tuesday’s topic was about money and how it is not the most importan3t thing in the world. The most important thing is to try putting yourself out for others. It is believed that when you make sacrifices for other people, good things will come back to you. This lesson