"Once you learn to die, you learn to live"
That is my favorite quote i get from book "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Maybe you've heard about this book. I had not realize yet how beautiful this book until i undesrtand why.
Morrie Schwatz, a sociology professor who teach with a different way. Thats why he was so special for many of his student, especially Mitch Albom.
After a long years both of them had no contact each other, one day Mitch saw his old professor appeared in the TV show. Not for talkshow or fashion show, but for being interviewed about his disease, ALS. His legs are paralyzed, he never could walk again, his body get more thin, more weak. Moreover, he almost couldnt sepeak, coughing all the time, even raise his hand as high as his belly is a very hard work. He suffered this ALS for recent years and he talked about how to hold out this complicated diseases.
By this TV show, Mitch came in the old professor house. There, mitch found that ALS didnt make his Coach sufferred. Instead, from this disease, Morrie could found and understood what the really meaning of life, his life and people life.
They make an appointment, to meet every Tuesday. Thats why they become the Tuesdays People (and also why this book has the titlle). Every Tuesday, they talk about a lot of topic, such us Love, Forgive, Death, Relationship, and so on. From this discusion, Mitch could get many lessons from his coach. The abtract of his professor lesson is that life is not about seeking money, is not about spent all of ur time in an ambitious way, is not about how many car do you have, how big and good house do you have. Instead, life is about how to love. How to be nice and kind to relatives, how to make urself useful for others, how to really listening to people.
And all the lesson of Morrie must be over at the fourteenth Tuesday. That day, his old professor is not in a really good condition. He sleep all the day. He knew that his time are coming. And he was right. After all his struggle, all his positive thought, he was gone.
Morrie had change Micth life. Now, he has a different look to his life, to his world. And Morrie change me too. This book is really touchy, i even stop in the middle just because i am not sure can finish this book without feel scared. For a long time, death has been my prominent fear. I fear with deadman, i fear to imagine how my soul being take off from my body, i fear to imagine that one day, God will asking me a lot of question, will asking me to responsible to my all work in this perish world. But, Morrie is my inspiration. He face the daeath with full heart of sincere. and i hope, you'll too.
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