Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live” (Albom, 1997, p.82). In the book, Tuesdays with Morrie, illustrated by Mitch Albom, a professor lived his last days by giving life’s greatest lesson to the world. After diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Morrie wanted to spread his experience differently from other dying individuals. As his progression advanced, he reconciles with his past. He followed through fourteen important essentials in life. He provided the reader with a second point of view in knowledge and relationships. Although his immobility affected his physical performance, he spoke to his devoted student, Mitch Albom, who furthered his compassionate words to the world. Throughout Morrie teaching’s, insights of his

During this stage, Morrie highly focused on others. As a college professor, Morrie engaged in his student's behavior and attended their wishes through his classroom teachings. For example, Morrie not only conducted the “Group Process.” He also trained his students to “respond to anger, jealousy, and attention” (Albom, 1997, p.60). His lessons conducted social experiments amongst him and scholars or the viewers. Unfortunately, due to his loss of mobility, he was forced to communicate from home. However, he continued to instruct guidance. Morrie developed fame from ABC TV’s “Nightline” appearances, in which he “would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip” (Albom, 1997, p.10). He wanted to further connections with strangers and accepted to hear their written letters filled with pain or tragic events. The numerous interviews, gatherings, letters, motivated his cognition. Using his voice and hand gestures was how gave to the people (Albom, 1997, p.70). Mitch did not understand his own life experiences and its sense of destruction. He searched for Morrie’s guidance and felt the urge to continue to see him every week to strengthen the understanding of life. Morrie inspired not only Mitch but the individuals who had heard his power of speech. Morrie talked about

In this stage, “an older adults acieves acceptance of own life, allowing acceptance of death, or else despairs over inability to relive life” (Papalia & Martorell, 2015, p. 26). After Morrie heard the bad news, he had no other choice but to accept his new self. For the first time, Morrie publicly mentioned his fatal condition on his first day of Psychology class. There was no longer a secret, and he knew the public annoucement was the beginning of the acceptance process. “He would make death his final project, the center point of his days” (Albom, 1997, p.10). Morrie continued lectures from his chair and refused to stop developing insight. “He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death’s shadow: “Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”; “Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it”; “Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others” “Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved” (Albom, 1997, p.18). As the weekly visits passed, the topic of discussion intensified. The knowledge of the factual meaning of life finally compressed into perfect understanding. Mitch asked Morrie if he ever feared to age. Morrie responded with a pleased outlook. He did not fear. Morrie took the last stage of life as a perspective of continuing growth (Albolm, 1997, p.18). Morrie was satisfied with his life, therefore did not need to relive life. He