Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

Tuesdays With Morrie is an enticing story about changes of mind. In the novel, a dying, wise man named Morrie Schwartz, takes on the author and central character Mitch, and guides him towards a brighter tomorrow. Mitch Albom, the author of the book, is a somewhat narcissistic man who has to face the impending death of Morrie by ALS, sometimes known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling muscle actions in the arms and legs, but Morrie has a few things to teach him and the world before he goes. Morrie’s lessons range from recognizing life’s imperfect culture, to how one should let go of the past to truly live in the present. However, despite the great breadth of topics, …show more content…
Mitch thinks about this for a moment, then he realizes that he didn’t complete any of the goals he set out to do in college such as joining the Peace Corps, he would never work for money and he would live in inspirational places. Instead he had lived in Detroit for ten years, gone to the same barber shop, same workplace, using the same bank. At the age of thirty-seven he still hadn’t become purer and charitable man that he wanted to be in …show more content…
Morrie is explaining that a lot of people deny that they are going to die making it harder to face when they are reaching their moment of death. Facing death changes one's life, for most, the person will put aside existential stuff to deal with the essentials. Morrie shows this by saying “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live (Albom 24).” The idea of life being something to cherish for as long as possible has started to be swallowed up by past times. When I think about distractions that halt the progress of living life I think of the cardinal sins. First being pride, which has had two antithetical meanings, the negative connotation, which relates to the writing, is a foolish and irrationally corrupt of one personal values. Greed is an insatiable longing or desire, especially for wealth, status, food, or power. Lust is a feeling in the body. The Lust can take many forms such as a lust for sex, lust for extravagance, or the lust for power. Envy occurs when a person lacks another’s quality, possessions, or achievement and will either desire it or will wish that the other did not have it. Gluttony is the over-indulgence over-consumption of food, drink, or wealth. Wrath is an intense emotion response. It will usually occur in response to provocation, threat or when a person feels that their personal boundaries are going to be violated. Some also