Mitch Albom's Tuesday With Morrie

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In the chapter the third Tuesday we talked about regrets of the story Tuesday with Morrie written by Mitch Albom, The theme is don't regret things that you can't change. The book states, “I want to remember what we talked about, I told morrie. I want to have your voice so I can listen to it... later. “When i'm dead.” dont say that” (albom 18). Death is going to happen and we can't stop it, we have memories, pictures and videos but we can't reverse death. It's going to come no matter what and all people handle it differently. What matters at the end is that you don't want to have any regrets. “the culture doesn’t encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having

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