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I finished reading the book “Tuesdays With Morrie” lately, which I should have read a long time ago. The book depicted the life’s greatest lessons the respectable professor Morrie gave his former student Mitch on Tuesdays during his battle with the incurable disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Through their discussion in classes, Morrie humorously and optimistically conveyed his perspectives on life, including family and marriage, emotions, regrets, fears, forgiveness, culture and world, and even death as well.
Life is like a journey. One started the trip once he was born. The destination for everyone is death no matter how glorious the trip is. As a grownup, one is usually too indulged with competing in the rat race to think about and enjoy his trip, as Mitch did before the reunion with Morrie. People tend to take for granted of what they possess, such as health, family and friendship until they lose them, at which time people realize how precious they are. Frequently, a bed-bond, sick or dying person values life much more wisely and deeply. Is it because they have much more time to speculate, or they just think in another way?
Let’s take a look how Morrie thought of life (some quotes).
“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart”.
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
"Sometimes you can not believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.”
“Aging is not just decay. It's growth.
"Love wins. Love always wins."
没有啦！我长你那么多岁，你还是看得比我早。：p
况且，你还在继续成长，而我早就停止并且开始衰退了。哈哈~~~~
Life is a process of learning, learnign love, learning failure, learning forgivess.
No wonder you are much wiser than I am. :-)
How's the little woman?
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."-----I like it! ~_~...
I read it about 10 yrs ago. :p
Yes, it is.Have you ever read it?
Thanks a lot.
I finished reading the book “Tuesdays With Morrie” recently, which I wish I could have read a long time ago. The book relates some of life’s most important lessons the respectable professor Morrie imparted to his former student Mitch on Tuesdays during his battle with the incurable disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). In their classes, Morrie, with humor and optimism, conveyed his perspective on life, covering such key topics as family, marriage, emotions, regrets, fears, forgiveness, culture, society, and even death.
Life is like a journey, which one starts upon his birth. Though it invariably ends in death, the journey itself, if handled right, may be wonderful. We grownups too often treat the journey of life as a rat race and are therefore unable to appreciate and enjoy the beauty of life along the way, as Mitch did before his reunion with Morrie. We tend to take for granted what we have, such as health, family and friendship, and do not learn how precious these things are until they are lost to us. This is why the old and the sick often demonstrate a wiser, a much more balanced, view on life. It is not simply because these people have more time for quiet thinking; rather, it is because, as their journey of life threatens to end, they come to realize what they may have missed along the journey of life, and find in themselves a much stronger urge than the young and the healthy to straighten out their priorities and to enjoy every last minute before time runs out.