“Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved” (Albom 7). This aphorism by Morrie Schwartz explains how you can change whenever you want and if you work hard enough you can change what you want. It is never too late to fix a problem or change your way of life. Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom and published in 1997, is a memoir filled with stories of Tuesdays with Mitch’s professor, Morrie Schwartz. Morrie wasn’t a typical college professor at Brandeis University. He was a sociology professor who taught the subjects of love, death, forgiveness, work. Morrie taught things that would help in life and discovering who you really are, rather than math or science that isn’t interesting or personal. He held a class every Tuesday, one
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One way he does this is when he asks, “What if today were my last day on earth?” (19). What if it was? What if everyone reading this, was going to die today? In the beginning of the book, Mitch worked a job he was just doing to make money, because that is all he wanted. By the end of Morrie’s lessons on money and love and living life to its fullest; Mitch’s life was changed. He dropped the job he wasn’t pleased with and finally realized he wasn’t living life. Mitch chased his dreams, possessed a new job; one he had always wanted, something he loves doing and will actually make him happy. Mitch said, “None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as “too late” in life. He was changing until the day he said goodbye” (55). Mitch thought if he were to die soon, he wouldn’t have had a fulfilled, worth living life. When Mitch said, “Morrie was changing till the day he said goodbye.” Morrie inspired him to change his life so he is living to his fullest. Who wants to die unhappy, with a job that is unenjoyable and a life full of vanity? He would’ve regretted a lot of things, and if Morrie had never taught him the lesson on regrets; Mitch’s life would be worth nothing and a whole lot different than it is
One way he does this is when he asks, “What if today were my last day on earth?” (19). What if it was? What if everyone reading this, was going to die today? In the beginning of the book, Mitch worked a job he was just doing to make money, because that is all he wanted. By the end of Morrie’s lessons on money and love and living life to its fullest; Mitch’s life was changed. He dropped the job he wasn’t pleased with and finally realized he wasn’t living life. Mitch chased his dreams, possessed a new job; one he had always wanted, something he loves doing and will actually make him happy. Mitch said, “None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as “too late” in life. He was changing until the day he said goodbye” (55). Mitch thought if he were to die soon, he wouldn’t have had a fulfilled, worth living life. When Mitch said, “Morrie was changing till the day he said goodbye.” Morrie inspired him to change his life so he is living to his fullest. Who wants to die unhappy, with a job that is unenjoyable and a life full of vanity? He would’ve regretted a lot of things, and if Morrie had never taught him the lesson on regrets; Mitch’s life would be worth nothing and a whole lot different than it is