Life In Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

The human race perceives life in different ways. Based off that and your social status, you see life a certain manner. Morrie Schwartz had a distinct approach about life itself. His older life was told in a book written by Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie, who also stars as one of Morrie’s students. Morrie was diagnosed with ALS, a terrible disease that impacts mobility and works its way up your body until you loose complete function. At first, the disease kicks him to the curb making him lose the ability to live a normal life physically and breaks him down, but soon he conquers his mentality and lives the life of a humble dream. Throughout the book, Morrie has discussions with Mitch that give life long lessons, three of which enlightened

It’s something that I do everyday for the most part. I’ve been in either the school choir or a church choir since seventh grade. So, singing was easy for me to pick up because of my love for music. Although I love singing, it’s different singing in a choir then singing on your own. My parents have always told me to sing whenever we have parties at the house, but I was hesitant because I wasn’t confident in myself. I can impart to Mitch’s wife when Morrie asks, “Will you sing something for me?”. Because as Mitch adds, “When people find out you sing for a living, they always say, “ Sing something for us.” Shy about her talent, and perfectionist about conditions, Janine never did. She would politely decline (146). As mediocre singer, I would worry how my voice sounded on a microphone. I’ve learned over time though, if you feel good you sound good. So I took it upon myself that I would sing if I felt comfortable. Let me tell you, shower singing really helps because you can focus on your notes and don’t have to worry about sounding bad because you can just say it’s only shower singing. The day came where I felt pleased enough and it happened to be at a mexican concert. The artist was in between songs as I called his attention with my sombrero. His called me up asking what I wanted and I said I wanted to sing with him. The moment he said yes I froze in my head. But I thought to myself, there’s no going back when you were called up thousands of people. I asked to sing a song he wrote for his father, and he agreed. His musicians started playing and he hands me the microphone. I started out a little rough but gained more confidence towards the end of the song. By the end of the song I had the whole place cheering me on. I shook his hand and thanked the man for giving me this marvelous opportunity. From that day forward, I gained more and more confidence singing