It’s a lie that you have never had a dream that you were afraid to chase. That you have achieved every goal you have set your mind to. That you never wanted to go back in time and relive a special moment, or be at a peaceful point in life. But why do we not chase our dreams or try harder to accomplish our goals? Why do we want to go back to other ages, or be youthful again? In Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom, a sports writer tries to reconnect with one of his old college professors. His old teacher, otherwise known as Morrie, is glad to reconnect, but is soon due to pass. He wants to teach Mitch some of his greatest lessons and share important experiences before he goes. Throughout Morrie's last lessons, he teaches Mitch to live as much as he can and to …show more content…
Mitch also wants to do things so that when he goes, he will not live in anger that he didn’t do something such as reconnecting with his brother. In the text Mitch writes “But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye. Not long after Morrie’s death, I reached my brother in Spain. We had a long talk. I told him I respected his distance, and that all I wanted was to be in touch—in the present, not just the past—to hold him in my life as much as he could let me. ‘You’re my only brother,’ I said. ‘I don’t want to lose you. I love you.’ (Albom 190).” Mitch Albom uses a cause and effect relationship to show how Morrie has affected his life. Morrie inspired him to do things that he normally would not have done, and realized that he needs to live his life and do things before it is his time to go. Mitch reaches out to his brother that he has not talked to in years and will hopefully try to accomplish his