Accepting Happiness In Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

The wise and insightful Goldie Hawn boldly states: “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are” (“Google”). In other words this means that one cannot truly find happiness if they are not happy with themselves. Moreover, one needs to accept themselves before they can accept happiness. In Mitch Albom’s famous novel, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch, the protagonist, compromises a life of wholeness in pursuit of his ambition. Being an obsessive workaholic who let his ambition negatively impact his relationships at the beginning of the novel, Mitch seems to have a hard time understanding the idea of being completely at peace with himself. Later, Mitch re-joins Morrie Swartz, his former sociology professor, for weekly series of Tuesday sessions to talk about life’s ultimate purpose is. Mitch is helped by Morrie’s lessons to change his life such that he is perfectly in harmony with everyone around

Morrie talks about how people never seem to actually experience and live their lives and he compared it to being on autopilot or sleep walking. “Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.” (Albom, 24). This projects that people only remeber that they have a life to live when they accept the fact that they wont live it forever, and that one should live their life now instead of waiting for it to almost be over. When Morrie was writing a letter back to a woman named Nancy, whose mother had died from ALS, he changed the last sentence in the letter which changed the entire mood and meaning of it. "I hope you can find the healing power in grieving.” (Albom, 25). This altered the meaning since it demonstrated that, rather than being viewed as a negative emotion, grief is a powerful emotion that may transform a person's perspective on life in