"Tuesdays with Morrie"
by Mitch Albom
This book to be honest, is the first book that I actually have been reading and interested in for a long time. I guess n=being that the general trending topic in the story is Death and being grateful for life, I mean, who wouldn't be interested (unless you are a seriously living under a rock). But anyways, i found this book to be a great read. The story is about Mitch, a middle aged sports writer who feels his life is kind of empty. He has fond memories of college and his old, unique professor, Morrie, who he referred to as "Coach". Believing this time in his life is nothing but a memory, Mitch goes on with life, with no intention of going back in time. meanwhile, his old professor, Morrie, has become very sick, dramatically changing physically, but not mentally. Morrie has become more mentally strong because of his sickness because he's in a position in which he sees and feels how much life really means and is to him. Morrie then has a chain of events that happen to him, which lead him to apper on a Nightline talkshow to talk about his Illness. That's how student and teacher reunite.
Over the next few months, Mitch the student reconnects with Morrie the teacher on a journey to the subject of Life. They talk about different topics every week, every TUESDAY, ranging from Death, Illness, Money, Power, Fear, etc. Morrie is in a situation where he sees Life in a different light, and is therefore able to somewhat open Mitch's eyes to what Life is really about. In this process, Mitch, who represents a pretty major portion of the worlds population, learns that Life shouldn't be taken for granted and that its much more than society has made it out to be, like making alot of money.
To me, i think the author's purpose was to get what happened to Mitch( who is the author) in the heads of alot of people, or at least those who read the book. After reading this book, I persobnally have learned alot of insight on what Life really is and how growing up in modern society may have blinded me from the truth at some points. Also, I like how the book explores the subject of death. On the matter of fear of death, there is a quote that will always be on my mind, which is "when you learn how to die, you learn how to live". This quote is saying that you can't spend many hours of your lifetime fearing death or not wanting it to happen because its going to happen regardless. Believe it or not, death is apart of life, so thats just more inspriration to go out into the wolrd, show people and yourself who you truly are and just try and accomplish as much as possible.
This book was quite honestly one of the greatest reads that I've had in a very long time. With that said, a book like this also teaches me a little something on the subject of reading, that being it could become more sucessful if the read text could connect in apositive, impactful way to the reader, making the reading experience that much sweeter. "Tuesdays with morrie" did just that for me, which is why i actually enjoyed reading the book based on multiple personal connections to it, rather than having to feel forced to read it as part of a school assignment.
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