Life, with its busy pace, seldom brings an opportunity that puts everything else to halt. But when it does, it becomes something which doesn’t end when it’s over but stays on, something that opens that little extra window of your life to you, something that may have been with you for a long time.
“Tuesdays with Morrie” is just not a reading, but a journey within what we consider the realities of our lives, and the truth put forth in its simplest form by the author Mitch Albom’s old professor Morrie Schwartz.
“The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by the window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.
The last class of my old professor’s life had only one student.
I was the student…”
These words sound so true even after you put down the book, completing this incredible journey with Mitch Albom till the very end of his professor’s life. Every reader becomes the student. The teachings keep ringing even as one goes about the normal humdrums of life.
“Tears are okay”
And reading those lines, reading the book, I felt relaxed, I felt free. That’s the best a book can do to you, right?
There is a Morrie and a Mitch in all of us.
Morrie – the simple and natural one, and Mitch – the complex and artificial one.
Morrie – who can see things as they are, and Mitch – who is dependent upon the ideas given to him by the society to look at each and everything.
Morrie – a Sun spreading the light, and Mitch – the moon that reflects the light that has come from the Sun.
Every Mitch wants to be close to Morrie, every Mitch wants to be like Morrie but have grown up to believe that it’s very difficult, nearly impossible to be so. But is it?
Ask Morrie and he will ask you to ‘wipe his ass’ with this thought of yours. 🙂
This was not just the wisdom of a dying man but a man who has lived his life to the fullest. Morrie is one teacher whose lessons will remain somewhere within and surface again and again whenever our outlook towards the complexities of life as fuelled by society needs a check with the truth.
“The teaching goes on…”
