What Is Tuesdays With Morism Carrie By Mitch Albom

There is a variety of important life lessons for the reader to learn from the book Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom. Of the many meaningful aphorisms Morrie Schwartz taught Mitch, there is one in particular that I feel I can relate to on a personal level. It reads: “so many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” I find this quote very relatable because not too long ago, I went through a period …show more content…
In today's society, I feel as though we get too caught up in the little unimportant things. Take social media in my case; I chose to pay more attention to other people's life than my own. I went so far as to form an obsession over the things I thought they had, even though this may not have been the case. Many tend to find themselves spending more of their energy watching celebrities on reality TV than spending quality time with those that are physically there with them. With today's technology social media allows us to share who we're with, what we're doing, when we're eating, where we are, and how we feel, all with a simple tap of a phone screen. It is too easy to access the personal bits and pieces of another's life without so much as leaving the comfort of your own room. With that being said, it is too easy to get into the obsessive habit of comparing a stranger's life to yours without even realizing it. It is a common trend, for teens especially, to lose track of the good things about themselves when looking at others. Only seeing what one appears to have that they don't, losing sight in what is truly important in life. Believe it or not, we are only given a very limited amount of time on this earth and I feel that we should spend every minute of it with a purpose. When life knocks you down and you don't see any way to get back up, you have to tell yourself that there is a way… there is always a way. I strongly believe in having a purpose in life, something more than just living. With that being said, I am not proposing that one should drop their job to run around the country hugging trees, but find a reason to be happy, better yet be someone else's reason for happiness. It took me a long time to learn this lesson and to be honest I'm still learning. It is hard, without a