“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in, we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.” This piece of wonderful literature is an excerpt from Tuesdays with Morrie.
I started reading Tuesdays with Morrie about 2 weeks ago, even though this is a book you can finish in one sitting. I started reading it on the metro. i think its quite refreshing to see someone pull out a book when travelling in metro, i know i surely am intriogued and curious to know what the other person might be reading, in these times when you see almoszt everyone on their phones, it can be quite nice to pause everything for a while and dive into a good book
the book begins with morrie who is the mitch albom's college professor, whom he had promised to keep in touch with him and eventually loses touch with his favourite professor like the best of us and morrie finds out he has ALS i.e, Lou Gherig's disease, and he finds out he has less time left than he would have thought, which is really such a shame because we see that morrie is such a joyful, carefree person yet throughout this book he tries to find the silver lining of it all, he still tris to find the joy in life, when he finds about he might die soon, he says it gives him enough time to say goodbye to everyone he loves. Whenever I would have a bad day and wouldn't be able to sleep at night, I would read even just 10 pages of this book, and it would make me feel so much better. It is so heartwarming while showing the bad parts of having a disease that makes you terminally ill.
mitch albom finds out about his professor's illness through a tv show and he comes back to him, they reconnect and they spend 14 tuesdays together learning some of the most important topics of life, and as youre reading it, you feel what morrie and mitch are feeling, im sure all of us must have that one teacher who felt like home for us, i know i did.. for me it was my engligh teacher in school, reading this book made me think of her.. and im sure that other readers felt the same.
Tuesdays with Morrie is relatable in so many ways. I have learnt so much from this book, I feel like everyone will be able to relate to it in at least some sort of way, no matter where you are in your life. The things you learn here, you will probably remember for a long time to come. I know I will. This is the sort of book that each time you read it, you will get something else from it... It changes your perspective. I am yet to discover that, when I do; i might update this very article
if everyone keeps waiting for someone like Morrie in your life, nothing would change. I realised that you have to be your own Morrie, for yourself, for other people. I should remind myself of all the things Morrie taught every single day. how important it is for you to push yourself even when you might not feel like yourself, even when you feel like drowning in self pity all day, give yourslef the chance to feel it but then remind yourself of all the wonderful things you still have left to feel in your life and that you cant wait for other people to do things for you, how important it is to make other people laugh, and how important it is to be happy within yourself, that is how everything else will fall into place
there is a quote in the book that i dont really seem to fully understand yet, Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it." But for me, the more I feel the experience, the harder it is to leave it. This sounds like something I may have to learn in the near future
"We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do, all the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened". this quote resonted with me a lot, especially for where i am in my life right now, my exams didnt go as well as i thought they would and i had been beating myself up over it, i couldnt sleep thinking about all of it, thats when i picked it up again after having almsot abandoned it for almost a month, i finally finished it. and felt so deeply touched after reading it.
Make peace, you need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you. Sometimes, I had to take a break from reading and reflect upon life. Whenever I would come across a quote like that, it really makes you think about life; it made me think, is that all life is?
I checked Goodreads after reading it, and I came across a comment that said that this book is like someone stapled 80 greeting cards together and reading them straight through. While at times it might feel sappy and cheesy, the comment makes sense, but I chose not to see it that way. There are still many takeaways from the book that are worth your while. I feel like reading reviews beforehand, especially sometimes, takes away from the experience, not always, but sometimes, and causes preconceived notions.
What a wonderful experience it was reading this book. I will definitely revisit it again, and I will have a different perspective on it then.
