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Tuesday’s with Morrie
“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live” (Albom, 82). One of Morrie’s famous lines was an inspiration to lots of people and most importantly, Mitch. Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie”, is a novel about a college professor's last teaching. His teachings consisted of life, death, and culture in our everyday lives. Our lives are very valuable and viewed as if we are wasting it over temporary materialistic, emotional, and influential aspects of our culture.
“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do; Accept the past as past, without denying or discarding it; Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it’s too late to get involved” (Albom, 18). This short list is a portion of many philosophies written by Morrie all relating on how to live life. Morrie teaches himself to appreciate the time he has left by accepting his condition with the help and love …show more content…

Morrie is trying to persuade Mitch to create his own culture but fear of age and commitment, are the few of many problems him and his generation face.“As you grow you learn more” (Albom,118), but the culture teaches us that looking and feeling younger is better which equals unsatisfied lives. As you get older you become wiser and have more knowledge about a lot of things and the young should look forward to it. The greed for money and materialistic things is a problem when it comes to children and commitment because it's a task and they don't wanna feel so obligated to one thing. Commitment means marriage in the long run and Mitch feels as if people are selfish and think its a joke. Morrie agrees and believes that your strongest value should be the importance of your marriage because your significant other and your family are all you have in your darkest days. “Love each other or perish” (Albom,149), meaning suffer and die than to be without love and

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