Tuesdays With Morrie: The Dying Man With Mitch Albom
August 17th 2008 02:06
The old days with important people in your life are worth remembering. Old days with old colleagues who are now away from you not because you forgotten them but because of your civic obligation. You promise to keep in touch with them but in some instance you failed because of being preoccupied. But suddenly you are in hurry to take a look at them before they will pass away. The last counting moment of their lives is now, would you like to spend a second of your precious time for them?
Mitch Albom caught my attention when I read his work. His novel "Tuesdays With Morrie" is not all about fiction, horror, action, drama, its all about memories of his old days in college with his Professor Morrie. Albom and Morrie are the leading character of the story. They played the tremendous roles in life.
Albom is a sport writer that made him busy. Always. He was not able to visit Morrie frequently as he promised to him. One day, he learned from the news that his old Professor got sick. How sad, we only see the merit of things when they are about to leave us. Morrie is Albom's beloved Professor in college who taught him and accompanied him as his friend. Morrie taught him not just being a student but just a friend.
Albom learned many things in life beyond the school's curriculum. The way how to act in a certain situation, and what is really the life means. Morrie was more than a teacher to him.
"IF you know how to die, you know how to live."
Morrie is a man who spent his life in teaching. For him everything has lessons to be learned. And that everyone should learn from them. Even the dying man still has lessons to teach. "The world doesn't stop."
For Morrie, aging is a growth. Everyone has time as being young and to be old. Mitch eventually visited Morrie quite frequent from those times. Every time they talk, there are always teachings coming from the old teacher.
The Tuesday people.
Sometimes we are too afraid of feeling...
Don't afraid of dying. It happens to every one. The most important is how we lived our life.
Mitch recorded all words of Morrie.
What's the point of dying anyway?
"Death ends a life but not a relationship."
Morrie died on Saturday morning. The old friend passed away peacefully.
The meaning of life was the last subject of Albom's professor. The lessons he taught is quite enough to guide the world. Life is not doing what is needed. It is what you want where you are happy to do those things as long as it is just.
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