Reflective Essay's Tuesdays With Morrie

Life is a precious thing, that is why it is fragile. The same way when we truly realize it is fragile, it becomes more precious. Tuesdays with Morrie is a completely new experience to me. It gave me lessons and consciousness on what is going on in and around my life, things I know I cannot forget and never will.
This book has been recommended to me many times before . I saw my sisters reading this and suggesting me to do the same. Unfortunately, I have not found the time to do so. More accurately, I have not considered reading it the first time, which later I found that that decision is a wasted opportunity. But now that my reading hobbies are active, I could say that this book is really one of the few books that caught me. It gave me strong insights on subjects that really matters, and now, its story became one of my values I follow in life.
Morrie and Mitch’s story is an unusual one. The story of a teacher and a student, …show more content…
Now that Morrie has had been suffering from his disease, it is like he could felt all the other sufferings of other people, even strangers from half a world. He told Mitch that “the most important thing in life is to learn how to give love, and let it come in.” When talking about love and all this stuff, we tend to drop the subject and not pay attention. This behavior is also the culture’s stereotypes that when we engage ourselves in these matters, we are considered as weak and soft, particularly with men. That is the reason people became unhappy. We put on masks to cover our emotions. We do things we do not want to do. We do not do the things we want to do. We were not able to communicate ourselves, our feelings, our thoughts, thinking we would be rejected and ignored. We cannot become who we are and what we could be. And that person inside will die and we will not have a single clue. “A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the