Tuesdays with morrie

Tuesdays With Morrie Imagine waking up one day and discovering that you have a fatal disease – you are going to die. What would you do with your days left? The book “Tuesdays with Morrie”, written by Mitch Albom, was published in attempt to raise money to afford Morrie’s disease. But at the same time, it was Mitch’s final thesis with his old professor. “Learn how to die, and you learn how to live”, Morrie emphasizes. He taught his greatest lesson as a professor – a lesson about life. He realizes that facing death is necessary to understand the purpose of life. It was not until Morrie discovered he had ALS that he started questioning about life. And from there on he focused his last days on trying to understand the purpose of life. As soon as Morrie hears the news, he questions, “Shouldn’t the world stop? Don’t they know what has happened to me?” (Mitch Albom p8). It shows how shocked and in denial he was, especially when he says “shouldn’t the world stop”. By saying that he makes it clear that he wants the world to see “what has happened to him” as it would somehow change what happened. But later on he learns that it wouldn’t. And that despite the fact he was desperate to find a way to save his own life and not face death, there was nothing he could do. Throughout the process, Morrie reminds himself of his moments of exuberance when he was sure about himself, as nothing could ever happen to him. That’s when he realizes, “If you accept the fact that you can die at any time – then you might not be as ambitious as you are” (Albom p83). His “acceptation” opens his mind to see things from a new perspective. He defends that if people really believed the fact that they “can die at any time”, they would do and see things differently. They would not be as ambitious as they are with work, money, power. Instead, they would search for affection. Morrie discovers that by facing death life changes and so does the way you see it. One of the major things that changes, once