My first reading of Mitch Albom’s work - Tuesdays with Morrie is an exceptional story that will leave you wondering about life.
It is a must read for all of us as we live this journey and experience life with the twists and sweetness that it bestows.
It answers all your questions and deepest fears about what makes life worth living. It seeks to make you aware that life is best served with trust, love and forgiveness.
Story: Mitch is a sports journalist having a hectic schedule with no time for the simple pleasures and answers of life. A life changing experience gets him closer to Morrie - his college professor. The last few classes with his dear teacher leave Mitch a changed person.
Characters:
Morrie: A college professor who has been affected with ALS, meets Mitch his favorite student again in the last few days of his life. They engage in conversations and life’s teachings on life, death, marriage, forgiveness and culture. These views helps Mitch see his life and people around him wisely. Morrie’s personality has a zest and a passion for life that leave you stunned. He makes you believe his extraordinary journey with so much ease and honesty.
Mitch: Mitch is an ambitious journalist and a writer who is trying his best to keep pace with the busy and competitive world. He reconnects with Morrie and his own life through Morrie’s classes.
Here are a few aphorisms and quotes that Morrie talks about in the book.
- Do I wither up and disappear or do I make the best of my life?
Study me in my slow life and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
Love wins. Love always wins.
The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - even when you are in the dark. Even when you are falling.
Life is a series of pulls back and forth.
Everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it.
How can I be envious of where you are - when I have been there myself.
The very thought of you and I forget to do the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do.
I see your face in every flower,
Your eyes in stars above,
It’s just the thought of you
They very thought of you
My love.
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
Love is when you are concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.
Mahatma Gandhi ~ "Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
Get hold of Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie. It’s a beautiful book that you will recommend to all avid readers.