The eight Tuesday is when they talked about money. We are material beings. We cannot deny that we need food, clothes, and shelter to survive, and we need money to afford our essential needs. However, sometimes people value them much more than other people. We would always go back to what culture conditioned us to have. We get stuck into a society wherein they demand you of having something new or something big but never really cared for what it is all worth. Because again, we want to feel accepted so we tried to be involved with them by doing what they are doing but we will never feel satisfaction. It is confusing on what we want and what we need that we became lost on what is important. Just like Morrie said, we feel satisfaction when we …show more content…
One of the causes of our fear of dying is when we know we will cease to be present in somebody else’s life. When we realized that all of us will be forgotten, like we have never existed, that we will go into oblivion forever, we become afraid and terrified. This happens usually when we are about to die because when we look back to what our life has become and realized that we had no one that we could actually say “I became a major part in his/her life”, we know that no one will remember us, like all we have done was just a blur from a distant, half-remembered world. The only thing that lives on when we die is the memory of us. And that memory is from someone who had a relationship with us. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”. Morrie fully committed himself to being present with someone. And I believe we all should. When we talk to someone, we usually listen to retort, not to understand what the person is trying to say. We must immerse ourselves in conversations and not think of other things except it because if we do, we could not cherish each moment. We lost track on every day, noticing no change but awhile when we look back, everything is different. We always think of what will be—what will I do later? What will I eat later? Will I be rich? Will I find my special someone? —not what is. Our minds will always be somewhere else, and what is the point of living today if we are only thinking of living