Tuesdays With Morrie

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is really a superb book. A simple, small book but overflowing with great life lessons, and outpouring of emotions. It reminds you about death. We seem to think death is still miles away... We imagine in our head death will come when we're old and grey. We hardly imagine death could come today, tonight or tomorrow morning. We think death is still twenty, thirty, fourty or fifty years away... so we continue to live in a meaningless life. Busy with a trillion of little unesscessary acts... chasing the wrong things. And forget to do what we want to do... to say what we want to say... to give what we want to give... to share what we want to share with our dear families, friends and our surroundings -- to live a meaningful live while we still have time.

FAVE QUOTES:

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work. Create your own. Most people can't do it."

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for ganted"

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"Maybe death is the greatest equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another."

"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too -- even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."

"The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks -- we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"

"To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time... That way you can actually be more involved in you're life while you're living"