Morrie Schwartz's Tuesdays With Morrie

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Tuesdays with Morrie On July, 31, 2015 my life changed, I was sitting there with some family and this women who I considered a grandma to me was on her deathbed. The next thing my family and I ,hear is her rasped breathing, and what sounded like choking. She was having difficulty breathing. I walk over to her and then I saw, it the life leave her body. The way her eyes looked empty and the heaviness that was in the room afterwards was saddening. Death is a hard subject to think about especially when someone witnesses it. Morrie Schwartz is another person who speaks about death, and teaches important lessons on how to be happy in life. He is from the book Tuesdays with Morrie. Morrie has ALS which is a muscle disease that makes him lose control of his muscles. Eventually he will die from it. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches people to live life through teaching to not have regrets, to have forgiveness for others, and that death is a natural thing. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie talks about not having regrets in life. Morrie has a lot of regrets in life for example he had this friend. Him and Morrie were friends forever, but then one day Morrie’s wife needed surgery …show more content…
The people who bullied me and didn’t want to be my friend because I was annoying, my racist grandmother, and Dorothy dying all taught me lessons like in the book Tuesdays with Morrie. Like, Morrie I have learned to live with things that happen in life and to try and do different things to better myself and to move on from the past. This is important because losing my grandma and all the things I have went through have changed my thoughts and idea’s about how to live life, treat people and to have tolerance. Which also happened with Morrie.Morrie learned how to be happy before

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