Tuesdays With Morrie Essay

Tuesdays with Morrie is an inspirational book about a dying professor, Morrie Schwartz, and his former student Mitch Albom. Morrie learns that he has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig’s disease and knows he is going to die. When Mitch hears about Morrie he decides to get in contact with him after sixteen years of absence. When they reunite Morrie teaches Mitch about so many of life’s lessons in the last fourteen weeks of his life. Morrie and Mitch meet on Tuesdays to discuss love, family, aging, marriage, forgiveness and how to have a meaningful life. Through Morrie’s dying eyes he is very clear to Mitch to discuss the important things in life, compassion and love. Morrie tell Mitch “Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied; you won’t be envious and won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you will be overwhelmed with what comes back”. To me this is a true meaning of when you decide to do a good deed for another person, do it from your heart not
He says that it is good that you understand you are going to die because you can live a better life if you do. I think most people deny that fact that they are dying. It’s hard to accept you are dying and not knowing exactly when could be frightening. I think if I knew I was dying I would talk and teach my children all of the feelings and the real meaning of life that I know. I would want them to know its ok; I’m ok just like Morrie let Mitch know. When my father was dying he was in denial, I will never forget when he said to me, “Dee, what do you think I’m going to die?” my answer to him was yes dad I do. He was a lot like Morrie in the fact that near the end he could not do certain things for himself and it was sad to see him ask for that kind of help. I don’t think he was embarrassed about it because he had no