Tuesdays with Morrie: Week of 4/27

Based on the 6 Tuesdays you have read about in Tuesdays with Morrie, choose which topic (The World, Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, or Emotions) that has had the most impact on you or inspired you. On your blog discuss the importance of this topic with your own opinions, including textual evidence (direct quotes) from the book.

Throughout the book Tuesdays with Morrie, several topics of important interest have been brought up. Morrie has covered important topics of such as worldly conflicts, sympathy for one's self, regret, how to deal with death, the importance of family, and dealing with emotions.  These chapters have been a true insight as to the type of person Morrie was and the manner in which lived his life. The topics have offered a profound impact for the reader and have allowed them to realize the importance of the topics listed above.

Morrie's explanations and view on life are something I have never previously seen. Due to this and his rather interesting point of view on death, I have found fourth Tuesday to be on of the most important. Throughout this section we are able to see the importance of accepting death and the number of years we have been given. As Morrie portrays through Tuesdays with Morrie, there is an importance in realizing, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Meaning that previous to our impending death, it is best we come to terms with the life that we have lived in order to improve what is left of it. Personall, I have always found a certain importance in appreciating life, something that Morrie constantly does. In several levels, I find it easy to empathize with the older man, seeing as I understand several of his points. 

In further detail, I also found "The Fourth Tuesday - We Talk About Death" to be important due to the change in Morrie's character. Morrie himself is a rather dynamic person, but there is a certain essence to him that has been captured through this section. I feel that this is the first section in which both Morrie and Mitch have come to a true concensus on death. It feels that for one of the first times they are on the same page, in regards to Morrie's illness and the outcome of it. We are shown this as we the comparisons between the situations Mitch can appreciate and the one Morrie can appreciate. It seems that Mitch is finally able to understand the toll death has on a person but the change in manner seeing as they are more grateful, in the end.