The most important person in my life is my mom, Rachel. She reminds me of a character from a book I once read called Tuesdays with Morrie. Morrie and Rachel are both teachers, have had a lot of tough times throughout their life that they have had to get through and are both big believers that family comes first.
Both Morrie and Rachel are teachers but not exactly in the same way. Morrie was actually a professor who taught college students his whole life. Even after Morrie retired from that he met with one of his old students every tuesday to teach him about life lessons. Some of the life lessons Morrie was teaching this student was about forgiveness, how life goes on, saying goodbye and the fear of aging. Rachel is not an actual teacher but I consider her one of my teachers. She has taught me more than anyone else. Some of the lessons Rachel has taught me throughout my life are to be self efficient, to be opened minded, and to know my limits, care for people but do not allow them to walk all over me.
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Morrie was diagnosed with ALS and not soon after is when his classes began every tuesday with one of his students. Throughout the weeks he gets worse and worse and the way he stayed positive through all of it was meeting up with his old student every tuesday to talk back on life experiences and different lessons he had learned that he wanted to share on to more people. In the book Morrie says love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. Morrie spent the little time he had left at home with the people he loved and that is how he stayed positive through such a hard time. Rachel has been through something similar. She had to experience the sudden loss of her dad. She got through this tough time just by remembering all the good memories they had together. She learned that she needed to stay strong to help the rest of her family get through