Tuesdays with morrie
by mitch albom
My favorite theme from the book was strength. Morrie had strength through out his ALS days. When he found out he didnt cry or wasnt upset he accepted it. He loved to listen and talk to people. I will carry this throught my life because if something bad happens to me i will remember morrie and mitch there the two strongest men ever. I am always going to be strong because of them. As you can see Mitch and Morrie are so strong and that will really help me in the future.
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Morrie is the most wonderful man in the entire world or.... at least he was the most wonderful man in the entire world before he had a unsurprised death. During this book morrie teaches me what its like to be dying, to live life to the fullest because your not going to have a life forever. He also taught me that love is extremely important. But one of the most important thing he taught me was the values in life. That all the celebrates, tv, money, work, and fancy cars don't matter at all. What really matters is that everyone has each other. Your family and friends are the most important things. Morrie taught me so much in this book that touched my heart and he is a great man. He will forever be in my heart even though I never met him I felt like he was my best friend.
Morrie think that people these days lack the things that love need. Mitch describes marriage like it is an alligator from a murky swamp. His view on marriage is that not many marriages work out. Mitch has a good relationship with his wife because he would never want to be a divorced person. More has rules about marriage you must have to respect the other person, you alway need to know how to compromise, you continually have top talk openly, and you need to have a common set of values in life. I think that these things are important because it helps you and your spouse have a healthy relationship.
More loved music even before he got sick. But now its intense. He said that people now a days just like more. More toys, The newest sports car, the biggest house and none of that mattered to morrie.
“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.” I agree with this passage from the book. People think they can pretty much buy love. Morrie has a great view on maternalism ."Morrie had always been taken with simple pleasures, singing, laughing, dancing. Now, more than ever, material things held little or no significance. When people die you always hear the expression ' you can't take it with you.' Morrie seemed to know that along time ago." He thinks that people that buy things for love are not good. More thinks that people want love so much that they should just find love and not accepts love from material things. Aging is a horrible thing... Well not yet for me but for the 40 year olds I probably would despise aging. Getting older means your more likely to get a disease and you change like getting wrinkles and gray hair which is a dark place. But I am perfectly fine with aging right now because I'm young.
The 1960s had a good result on the world because there where so many protest about racism, human rights, etc. Eventually they worked the world was free and now look where we are. People think that the world is horrible know but they just don't know what it was like.
“Do you believe in reincarnation? I ask.
“Perhaps.” What would you come back as? “If I had my choice, a gazelle.” A gazelle? “Yes. So graceful. So fast.” A gazelle? Morrie smiles at me. “You think that’s strange?” I study his shrunken frame, the loose clothes, the socks-wrapped feet that rest stiffly on foam rubber cushions, unable to move, like a prisoner in leg irons. I picture a gazelle racing across the desert. No, I say. I don’t think that’s strange at all.” In this quote morrie says what he wants to come back as if he was reincarnated. He would be a gazelle. If i was reincarnated I would come back as a fish. I think that would be amazing because i love to swim. |