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Morries's Life Lessons From The Book Tuesdays With Morrie

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Are Morries form the book ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ life lessons really important to us to use in our everyday life. The book tuesdays with Morrie is about a old guy with ALS and how he teaches a guy named Mitch Album life lessons that morrie has learned over the time he has been alive. Morrie teaches people to live life by learning to forgive people and people not giving into culture and accepting death. The first lesson that Morrie taught mitch was how to accept death. Morries opinion on the topic was that people don't really live life because most people don't really live life because they are afraid to show emotion towards death. “Once you learn how to die you learn how to live”.(Album 82). I agree with Morrie because when your dead you move onto the next life and begin to live like how you did in the life before but in a new place. When i was younger my aunt was in the hospital and was just having a good time cracking jokes and laughing as much as she could with the time she had left. …show more content…

Morries opinion on the topic is he doesn't really seem to care. ‘Heres what i mean by building your own little subculture… I don't mean you disregard every rule of the community...but the big things how we think, what we value those you must choose for yourself’’.(Album 155). I agree with Morrie because we do take a lot for granted. Nobody really thinks about how lucky we are to have everything we need. When I was younger i would complain on christmas that I never got what I wanted for christmas and always asked for

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