Tuesdays With Morrie

In the novel Tuesdays With Morrie every chapter is about a life lesson. Each Tuesday is a new chapter and lesson. These lessons include the world, feeling sorry for yourself, regrets, death, family, and emotions. These are all powerful and important lessons. They have all spoken to me on a personal level. However, the one that impacted me the most was Death.

        The Tuesday about Death just really opened my eyes about life and the way we live it. The quote that really blew my mind was, "The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” This is basically saying you should have a life you love so much that you would have no problem dying tomorrow because you are completely satisfied with what you have done and accomplished. This could also mean there is no better time to live in than the now. Morrie is just trying to tell us to live for the right reasons.

        Another Tuesday that really inspired me was Emotions. Emotions play a big part of our lives. We have feelings for evolutionary reasons. Sometimes we do not wish to feel, or at least do not wish to have bad feelings. Morrie's take on this really interested me, "If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely." This means if you avoid your emotions it makes everything worse. Pretending like bad emotions don't exist is like pretending you don't exist, it doesn't end well. Avoiding emotions like these cause them to bottle up and they will eventually explode out into one big meltdown that could last as long as you've been holding things in. All Morrie is saying is, to not be afraid to feel, feeling this way is something you can't avoid, so you might as well fully experience it.