Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie is a story about a professor with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Morrie Schwartz was a Sociology professor at Brandeis University, he liked to dance, and always had a realistic outlook on life. He believed that to live properly was to live to help people, not to achieve materialistic things. He met Mitch Albom in one of his classes and the two became very close. Morrie helped Mitch write his honors thesis on why watching American football is such a tradition. They spent many Tuesdays together writing the thesis and chatting about various things. Later on in Mitch’s life, he became a journalist for a newspaper and made television appearances discussing the many famous sports players that he had met and interviewed.

It is about how Morrie had an impact on him and taught him various life lessons. Morrie tells Mitch stories about his past. He told him about his brother had Polio as a child and how he blaming himself for it, and his mother's untimely death. He explains to Mitch how each of these events impacted him and taught him how to be a better person. Morrie’s past was what made him the man that he was described as in the book. What I like most about Morrie was the way he looked at life differently. He always saw the good in situations and helped whoever needed help. Morrie took the situations that life threw at him and found a way to make it benefit him. He didn’t let his past define him, but used the stories of his past to teach Mitch about life. Mitch was the opposite of what Morrie had been. He was very focused on his job and getting things done. He was always busy with something, whether he was on the phone making appointments or trying to find the next headline. Mitch never stopped to appreciate the world the way that Morrie did. Mitch saw the world as one appointment at a time. The only thing I don’t like about Mitch in the book is that he never really tried to figure life out before he saw Morrie on

Morrie had many hardships in his life but he never let them define who he was. It taught me that even though there are going to be hard times throughout my life, I have to overcome them and try to find the good in the situation and take something from it. Whether it be a life lesson or just learning that I should not do something. The book also taught me that I should look at the world as if it was my last day to ever see it. It wasn’t until Mitch was watching his old professor's life slip away that Mitch saw the world the way it truly was. He never took the time to see the world as it is, he lived his life one appointment at a time. He was more focused on his job and earning money than he was about his wife. When the strike at the newspaper company was going on, he didn’t know what to do because that was all that he knew how to do. The final lesson that this story has shown me is be happy. Whether that means teaching college students the importance of life like it was for Morrie, or traveling around making money and interviewing famous athletes like it was for Mitch. Being happy can make others around you happy too. Morrie had hundreds of his past students come back to see him when he was sick because he had made such an impact on them when they were in