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A review by ssoriano
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
WOW. If you need a book to get you out of your book slump Tuesdays with Morrie is perfect for you. It's a short novel and it's about a beautiful relationship between a Professor and his Student. Morrie, the Professor, is dying of ALS and Mitch, the Student and the author, writes down all their meaningful conversations during Tuesday visits. The novel was beautiful and it talked about love, marriage, faith, culture, and our relationships with other people. This was one of my favorite passages (p. 157):
"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?"
His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."
Morrie kept reminding Mitch (and us readers) to break from the culture of selfishness and greed, and turn to caring and loving other people. When you're young, it's easy to think that we need to be alone to pursue our career and other dreams. We don't realize that in the future, we'll need someone or our families to care for us. It's also our families who we come to for comfort when things are not going well. Morrie realizes that not every family is a loving family (based from his experience as well), and states that like him, we should strive to love our children and not make them feel the loneliness or the pain from our past families.
The ending of this book will make you cry and wish that you could be able to speak with Morrie as well. Like what Mitch says, our professors touch our lives more often than we realize. I'd recommend this to anyone and I'll re-read this book again in the future.
"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?"
His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."
Morrie kept reminding Mitch (and us readers) to break from the culture of selfishness and greed, and turn to caring and loving other people. When you're young, it's easy to think that we need to be alone to pursue our career and other dreams. We don't realize that in the future, we'll need someone or our families to care for us. It's also our families who we come to for comfort when things are not going well. Morrie realizes that not every family is a loving family (based from his experience as well), and states that like him, we should strive to love our children and not make them feel the loneliness or the pain from our past families.
The ending of this book will make you cry and wish that you could be able to speak with Morrie as well. Like what Mitch says, our professors touch our lives more often than we realize. I'd recommend this to anyone and I'll re-read this book again in the future.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death