Monologues From Tuesdays With Morrie

9. I have had an experience like that patient did where she just wanted people to notice her (109). Last year I would go to my classes and club meetings and people wouldn’t notice me very much. People wouldn’t really talk to me. I felt kind of invisible. I don’t feel like everyone is noticed at Lone Peak. It seems like there are lots of people who are just alone because they don’t fit into any of the cliques. There are lots of people who are sad and feel lonely, and I think that that is because they don’t feel noticed. 5. Morrie’s theory of detachment is that you have to go through something completely in order to get over it. Morrie uses it to deal with his disease by taking a moment after something happens, like a cough attack, and goes …show more content…
The effect of the curtain coming down on childhood for Mitch was that he moved on from his dream of being a musician and got a degree in journalism. I don’t think, and I hope, that this will never happen to me. I want to be childlike forever. I don’t think that it is possible to be PETER PAN in contemporary society. In Tuesdays with Morrie, it talks about a wave. That wave is upset because it is going to get to the shore and crash down. A second wave comes and tells him not to be upset because he is not one wave; he is part of the ocean (179). We are all just part of society. We cannot change anything. We all have to grow up and fit in a certain mold if we want to be …show more content…
The meaning of life is to do what makes you happy, while at the same time making others happy, because bringing other people happiness can bring you happiness. The thing that you should work towards the most in life is happiness. There is nothing more important than being happy. You aren’t really living if you don’t have happiness. It isn’t possible to be happy one hundred percent of the time, but you should have happiness. You should help other people be happy, because they deserve to be happy too, and the satisfaction of helping other people can make you happy. 12. This text asks us to consider that the potential for change in each of us. Ted Koppel changes in this book. In the first interview he is uncomfortable opening up and talking about his feelings (20). In the last interview he lets his feelings show and even almost cries (163). Tuesdays with Morrie shows how you can change, and gives many examples of people who have changed. I do think that it is possible for us to change. I myself have changed. I used to be very conservative, kind of cocky, and not very considerate. Now I am extremely liberal, not cocky, and am very considerate of other