Tuesdays With Morrie

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Tuesday with Morrie

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Obviously, Morrie Schwartz greatly impacted the life of Mitch and through his book Mitch has allowed his readers to receive a part of that influence. Morrie chose to die in a different manner than many other people. He accepted his own fate and decided to do something with the precious time that he had left. He took what he had and made it something positive although to many, it may be viewed as the ultimate negative. Even though he was living with a debilitating disease, he did not allow himself to slip into a depression or to simply accept and wait for death. Instead, he positively affected many people, both through his newly reborn friendship with Mitch and also through his interviews with Ted Koppel, which carried his words to and even more expansive audience.
Through looking at Morrie’s actions and how he chose to accept his death, we have an interesting insight into how we may want to accept our own deaths. In my personal opinion, I would want to adapt the same type of mindset as Morrie. I would want to make the time I had left as prolific as possible. In Morrie’s case he had a lifetime’s worth of knowledge and philosophies, which he chose to share with the people around him. When my time comes, I hope that I will have the same kinds of constructive thoughts and reflections to share with the people I love.
Morrie through the way he chooses to let his life end, and Mitch through his depiction of the time he spent with him during the last few weeks of his life, both have given their audience a valuable perspective of death and dying. O...