Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story about a sport journalist, Mitch, who after 16 years of drowning his life in a fast paced career suddenly saw his old professor, Morrie, at one night in the television. The program told of how his teacher, who he used to be very close to, was dying from a disease called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease and had decided to dedicate his remaining time to be what he called 'a human textbook' of dying to people around him. He didn't want to give up being a teacher until his last breath. Driven by remorse of breaking his promise to come visit after the graduation, Mitch flew to Boston to have a talk with him. He got more than a talk, he had lessons that changed his life.
Beautifully told, not unlike Morrie this book does not hold back scenes of emotional encounters. You'll find your eyes filled with tears from Morrie's forthright and honest notions. The book tells us how dying is a natural phase and should be less worrying than living unhappily. It also teaches us how we take precious things for granted because we think we will always have them, how we let time just passing by without really living the moments. I found some memorable lines that I think you might like too:
"love is the only rational act."
"what's wrong with being number two?"
"nothing haunts us like the things we don't say."
"learn how to die, and you learn how to live."
and many more, I don't want to spoil too much to you. :p
Another thing about this book is that it does not shove the lessons down your throat. Even though it falls under the category of 'self help' the book has a very subtle and simple way of narrating that it does not bore you. The other thing is that maybe it just shows us real conversations instead of formulating theories of how people should live their lives.
All in all, it is a very great book and I give it my full recommendation. A friendly reminder that as all of us know that we will eventually die, not as much really believe it. Do you?
cheers,
Shiddiq.
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