What Are Tuesdays With Morrie's Life Lessons

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(hook-intro)When a person dies, their hearing is the last to go. In the book "Tuesdays With Morrie", by Mitch albom, Mitch wrote down many life lessons Morrie taught. Mitch felt he needed to document the lessons he learned so people could learn these lessons before they died. Morrie talked about a lot of life lessons, but the most important three lessons Mitch needed to learn were, "there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family” (91), “learn to forgive yourself and others” (18), and “don't cling to things, because everything is imperative” (103).
(Bp-1) To start, the first life lesson Mitch needed to learn was “there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if

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