Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

“Don’t wait, not everyone gets the time I’m getting” (Albom 166). This was said by Morrie Schwartz. Morrie had a disease called ALS, ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a disease that affects the nervous system, weakening the muscles and affects how the body functions. It’s slowing taking over his body, even he is dying and his time is limited, he takes the time he has left to make things right with people. Not everyone realizes that they had the time to live the life the right way until it’s too late. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches people to live life by learning to show their emotions, how to give/receive forgiveness, and by letting the love go on. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie , I learned how to live life by showing my emotions. In …show more content…
In this chapter Morrie talk to Mitch about having a relationship with someone even after they’re gone. Morries says even when he dies, Mitch can still talk to him. He said the only difference is that he’s not there and he’ll only be listening. It’s kind of like closure. “Love is how you stay alive even when you’re gone”(Albom 133). To me it’s important because when you were close with someone and they pass you can still “talk” to them mentally or out loud have have that same sense of security. Even though it sucks because they can really give you advice you remember the advice that already gave you. I do this a lot with my sister that was stillborn. Even though i didn’t know her and it wasn’t anyone's fault that she died, it gives me that sense of security and closure. Tuesdays with Morrie teaches me to live life because I learned to show my emotions, to ask and accept forgiveness, and to show my emotions. Morrie teaches me to live my life by not clinging to material thing, forgiving myself and others and letting love stay alive. Not everyone gets the time we do, take advantage of it, make things right to live life to its