HW 22

Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Published by Doubleday in September 1997 



Precis: Morrie is a dying man who puts a spin on the way most people view death. After finding out that he has a fatal illness Morrie, along with his best friend Mitch, tries to be the middle man between the living and the dead. As a man going on a journey that all must take and is telling the rest of the travelers what to bring and expect.

"His philosophy was that death should not be embaressing; he was not about to powder its nose" Pg 21

 At this point in the story Morrie had an interview for t.v, and when asked if he wanted make up to make him look good he declined. Personally if I was old and wrinkly I would love to cover it up and try to look as good as I can. Morrie, in contrast, shows us that its good and in fact suggests to embrace the fact that death is out there. I find it interesting that people love to cover up and hide something that is inevitable. We put on make up in false hope that if we look ok we are ok.

"I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it." Pg 33

In the story Mitch had a sudden realization that he had thrown out his dreams in order to be "successful". People tend to think tat if you are successful it doesn't matter if you do not like what you are doing because you are successful. This is not necessarily all their fault because its what society teaches. For example I used to have a job that I hated, but because it paid good I stuck it out. At the end of my term I found myself a man with money who wasn't happy.



"Everyone knows they are going to die," he said again "but not everyone believes it. If we did, we would do things difrently." Pg 81

This caught my attention because of how true it is, this is true in most if not all peoples lives. Something that comes to mind when I read this was is the phrase "out of sight out of mind". Because we push death out of our lives and heads we live like we have all the time in the world. If we lived life knowing were dying everyday I highly doubt people would spend as much time on things that didn't really matter (Facebook) as much they do.

 This book provides the alternative point of view that should be looked for in life. The fact that Morrie is not just sitting back and letting his inevitable death ruin his time that he is alive, is inspirational. Reading this book has made me question the very way I view death. I can only hope that if I was to be in a situation as this I could react the same.