What Is Forgiveness In Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

Mitch Albom’s, Tuesdays with Morrie, is a book about compassion and the reality of life amongst a college professor and one of his students. This story is about an older professor teaching and informing his younger student about the crucial lessons of life as he is facing death. “We’re involved in trillions of little acts to just keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?” (64-65). Throughout the book Morrie Schwartz tries to share lessons with Mitch Albom that he had to experience the hard way. Every Tuesday, both Morrie and Mitch would get together and have several deep discussions about love, forgiveness, marriage, and money. The
After reading through this part of the book I realized that the point of the lesson was that you need to be able to forgive yourself first, and then forgive others. "We...need to forgive ourselves...For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened” (166). I have learned that part of being able to forgive involves accepting the regrets in your life, moving forward, and growing from these experiences. Do not wait to show forgiveness. Morrie showed many people that when you forgive somebody it can create a connection between you and that person. “Forgiveness is essential. Vengeance does not solve the problem. We need to forgive others and also ourselves to have peace in our lives” (My mom, Deb Broek, 52, of Orange City, Iowa. Orange City Area Health System Receptionist). Morrie also helped me and others to understand that it is very important to forgive right now because when it comes to death, it does not wait for us to forgive. Life is too short to hold grudges and this only “eats away at your heart”. “Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others” (164). Forgiving each other is also an important aspect to having a successful
You also need to know what your values are. As Morrie stated, “You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don’t” (149). In a marriage the husband and wife must have similar values and beliefs. If they don’t their marriage will be full of friction and disagreements. A successful marriage will only happen if the two people involved work together with one another. As Morrie states one of the biggest values is, “Your belief in the importance of your marriage” (149). Marriage is something that you shouldn’t rush into. “It is a loving relationship that needs to be nurtured and have respect between the husband and wife” (My mom, Deb Broek). You should not commit to a marriage unless you are fully in love and are ready to devote yourself to that person. Today our culture and society makes it very hard to be fully committed to another person. Many people are very busy with jobs and other activities that they haven’t taken the time to sit down and figure out who they really are. Since we don’t know our true selves, we have no idea who and what we want in a spouse. One of the many distractions to the things that matter in a marriage and life could be the value that is placed on