Detachment
Life lessons come from places you less expect, a book, newspaper, a simple message on a wall or a youtube video, Mitch Albom tells us a story about his “Coach” in the book Tuesdays with Morrie a book full of real life scenarios that shows how to face problems in life. The characters of this book are Morrie schwartz is a Sociology professor, Mitch Albom is the author, Charlotte Schwartz is Morrie’s wife and others are Morrie’s mom ,David and Connell. Morrie’s definition and detachment enables him to separate himself from society and accept death.
Accepting death is something nobody wants to really do and it’s perfectly normal to ignore the fact that death exists, Morrie is different, he accepts death and doesn’t fear it at all, …show more content…
He understands that to be happy is necessary to live a life created by the person not by the society or external factors like most of the world thinks, living according to other person's opinions. There is a recent and interesting spanish quote “mientras el atrapado cuenta las horas, el ganador hace que las horas cuenten cuenten” which means “ while trapped count hours, the winner makes the hours count” (Mariolunank, 2016) this means that while the normal people count the hours to get out of their jobs, school, meetings, etc… the winner takes full advantage of work, meetings, school or even just simple conversations with other people with the main purpose of learning to become a better person, that is what Morrie seems to do when visitors come over to his house, instead of counting hours for them to leave he spent those hours playing games, taking, teaching and learning from others, this attitude makes him different from the majority spatially considering the difficult situation he and his family are going through. Another quote is “If you don’t like the culture, don’t buy it” (Albom, 2007), Morrie applies this quote over his life because he doesn’t buy into popular culture, he creates his own culture, his own lifestyle according to what he knows and thinks is right and doesn’t let nobody control his actions but him. The majority of the people that is detached from the rest of the society is most of the time successful not only in their intimate life and relationships like Morrie but also in their careers and jobs because that people don't pay attention to any of the limitations imposed by same society like friends, teammates, classmates, boyfriend/girlfriend, enemies, etc… the big problem comes when the limitations come from persons who are really important in all branches of life and at all times,
Life lessons come from places you less expect, a book, newspaper, a simple message on a wall or a youtube video, Mitch Albom tells us a story about his “Coach” in the book Tuesdays with Morrie a book full of real life scenarios that shows how to face problems in life. The characters of this book are Morrie schwartz is a Sociology professor, Mitch Albom is the author, Charlotte Schwartz is Morrie’s wife and others are Morrie’s mom ,David and Connell. Morrie’s definition and detachment enables him to separate himself from society and accept death.
Accepting death is something nobody wants to really do and it’s perfectly normal to ignore the fact that death exists, Morrie is different, he accepts death and doesn’t fear it at all, …show more content…
He understands that to be happy is necessary to live a life created by the person not by the society or external factors like most of the world thinks, living according to other person's opinions. There is a recent and interesting spanish quote “mientras el atrapado cuenta las horas, el ganador hace que las horas cuenten cuenten” which means “ while trapped count hours, the winner makes the hours count” (Mariolunank, 2016) this means that while the normal people count the hours to get out of their jobs, school, meetings, etc… the winner takes full advantage of work, meetings, school or even just simple conversations with other people with the main purpose of learning to become a better person, that is what Morrie seems to do when visitors come over to his house, instead of counting hours for them to leave he spent those hours playing games, taking, teaching and learning from others, this attitude makes him different from the majority spatially considering the difficult situation he and his family are going through. Another quote is “If you don’t like the culture, don’t buy it” (Albom, 2007), Morrie applies this quote over his life because he doesn’t buy into popular culture, he creates his own culture, his own lifestyle according to what he knows and thinks is right and doesn’t let nobody control his actions but him. The majority of the people that is detached from the rest of the society is most of the time successful not only in their intimate life and relationships like Morrie but also in their careers and jobs because that people don't pay attention to any of the limitations imposed by same society like friends, teammates, classmates, boyfriend/girlfriend, enemies, etc… the big problem comes when the limitations come from persons who are really important in all branches of life and at all times,