Tuesdays With Morrie

1 Pages 234 Words

“ When your in bed, you’re dead,”- Morrie Schwartz

I see this chapter as outlining the importance of being an individual member of the world community and not just doing what is expected of you. Morrie clearly expresses the importance of taking care of what is essential especially since he is at the end of his life; no moment is to be wasted worrying about what is going to happen next. If you are associated with an activity or idea that is not supplementary to reaching your desired dreams and aspirations, then you are wasting your life.

Morrie also faces the issue of racism and sexism. On his deathbed he understands the stupidity of segregation and stereotyping a person based on their physical form. If a percentage of the people in the world agreed and lived with Morrie’s philosophy than it would undoubtedly be a better place. Our culture that we are uncontrollably raised into shapes our malleable personalities to become uncomfortable with the idea of complete equality and more popular is the idea that tolerance is easier than change.

All throughout his life Morrie taught the world through Brandies and his many euphemisms, but the most could be learned from his actions and the way he lived his life. He had a huge impact on the world because of what an impression he made upon everyone he met from students to family....