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A review by aayjaysbookshelf
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Like a delightful conversation with a dear friend.. Tuesdays with Morrie is a book that should be read by everyone.
A memoir of an old sociology professor on his deathbed due to a debilitating and progressively fatal disease (ALS), Tuesdays with Morrie is not your usual, all too glittery and preachy self help book. Yet it helps you. And it helps you in ways you were neglecting you needed helping in.
To know that a man named Morrie Schwartz once breathed amongst us, and continues to live through all the love and learning he became a source of, is humbling, to say the least. I won't say he taught some new and exciting discoveries, but the perspective and lens he offered was sure a new one. How else can a man so weakened by his disease which makes even wearing glasses on his own impossible, could say he's lucky for the time and chance he's been given? Where others would have succumbed to misery at a state far less severe than his, Morrie found peace, learning and happiness in whatever life had thrown at him, yet without invalidating the hurt and trouble that came with it. This book forces you to sit down with yourself, think about your life, and be mindful of every action of yours, even the ones as simple as swallowing. It tells you that a life well lived is a life that is lived in learning and loving. A simple, even cliché fact, but probably the most important one.
Not everyone gets a chance to sit with someone who's dying, and know about death upclose; a phenomenon most of us feel uncomfortable about. But Morrie makes that comfortable. The book reminds us of what we know already, but have long forgotten maybe. Mitch Albom has done a tremendous work in penning down this book; the last project with his dear professor, as he calls it. This, combined with Morrie's interviews with Ted Koppel are a must read/seen for everyone. Would definitely be picking this book up again some other time and learn new lessons from it.
Like Morrie said, 'Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live'. I hope I get to learn and implement how I'd like to die, and so does everyone else. ❤️
A memoir of an old sociology professor on his deathbed due to a debilitating and progressively fatal disease (ALS), Tuesdays with Morrie is not your usual, all too glittery and preachy self help book. Yet it helps you. And it helps you in ways you were neglecting you needed helping in.
To know that a man named Morrie Schwartz once breathed amongst us, and continues to live through all the love and learning he became a source of, is humbling, to say the least. I won't say he taught some new and exciting discoveries, but the perspective and lens he offered was sure a new one. How else can a man so weakened by his disease which makes even wearing glasses on his own impossible, could say he's lucky for the time and chance he's been given? Where others would have succumbed to misery at a state far less severe than his, Morrie found peace, learning and happiness in whatever life had thrown at him, yet without invalidating the hurt and trouble that came with it. This book forces you to sit down with yourself, think about your life, and be mindful of every action of yours, even the ones as simple as swallowing. It tells you that a life well lived is a life that is lived in learning and loving. A simple, even cliché fact, but probably the most important one.
Not everyone gets a chance to sit with someone who's dying, and know about death upclose; a phenomenon most of us feel uncomfortable about. But Morrie makes that comfortable. The book reminds us of what we know already, but have long forgotten maybe. Mitch Albom has done a tremendous work in penning down this book; the last project with his dear professor, as he calls it. This, combined with Morrie's interviews with Ted Koppel are a must read/seen for everyone. Would definitely be picking this book up again some other time and learn new lessons from it.
Like Morrie said, 'Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live'. I hope I get to learn and implement how I'd like to die, and so does everyone else. ❤️