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Diagnosis
Morrie kew something bad was about to happen to him, but what actually happen was worse than he could have imagined. Morrie was diagnosed with ALS on the 21st of July in 1994. Morrie did not let the disease affect his mood and his personal demeanor. -
Morrie Teaches Final Class
Morrie begins to teach his final college course at the beautiful Brandeis College, the same place Mitch graduated from years before. The stuents in the class were informed by Morrie that he was dying. He gave them all the option of leaving if they would like but they stayed and helped their old, wise professor through his last class. He would ask students to do may things that most people would not be ok with, like holding a bottle for him while he urinated. -
Morrie on Nightline
Morrie's story blew up after he was featured on Nightline. Not only did this show give complete strangers to learn of Morrie and his situation but it also gave Mitch a chance to see his old proffesor in his sickly state. After seeing the show Mitch booked the first flight to Boston to see Morrie before the ALS took over. This is the begining of the meetings. -
Reunited at Last
Not log after Ted Koppel covered Morrie's story on NIghtline, Mitch was reunited with is favorite professor. Mitch accepted the invitation to meet with Morrie every Tuesday and become "Tuesday People" -
Lesson 1: We Talk About The World
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." Morrie tells Mitch that he needs to live his life like every moment were his last. Morrie knows the feeling of living to die. The quote basically means that Mitch needs to show love for everything and eventually that love will be showed to him in return. -
Lesson 2: We Talk About Self Pity
"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life." a daily limit of "self-pity." Morrie says that he limits himself to a certain amount amount of time per day. This was very helpful in my own life. Instead on dwelling on the bad he says to focus on the good and limit the bad. -
Lesson 3: We Talk About Living With Regret
This is the frst lesson that Mitch records. Mitch wants to remember the lessons for the rest of his natura life. Morrie says that "the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, haveing enough money....Is this all? Is this allI want? Is something missing?" He is saying that we should not live with regrets. -
Lesson 4: We Talk About Death
"Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your sholder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?" If not, live your life the way you want it to be. he also says, Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently." Morrie wants Mitch to believe that no matter what happens, people will die, and to live life like it is the last moment. -
Lesson 5: We Talk About Family
"There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children." He is telling Mitch that he is having any doubt that he does not want a family then he should start a family. He wants Mitch to experiance the same thing that Morrie experiances with his own children. -
Lesson 6: We Talk Aout Emotions
"If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid." He is saying that you need to accept emotions for what it is, and let it in, experiance it and move on. -
Lesson 7: We Talk About Aging
"Aging is ot just decay...It's growth." As you age you learn, not only do you learn but you also start to decay. Morrie is sayong that you should not be affraid to age, and not look at it as a bad experiance. But as a learning experaince. -
Lesson 8: We Talk About Money
"Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness." Morrie explains that even though a person may be rich, they are still a person. They still have a family, they still have the emotions of th common man. They still have the problems of other people, and still have the struggles. even though they have more money that does not give anyone the right to treat others differently. -
Lesson 9: We Talk About Love
"Love each other or die." If you are not willing to love others and accept people then your own life is meaningless. He lso says "Love wins. Love always wins." meaning no matt what love for others will always triumph over hatred. -
Lesson 10: We Talk About Marriage
"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 think the best way to find meaning is through a spouse. -
Lesson 11: We Talk About Culture
Morrie thinks that our culture is sugar coating all of the bad and focusing on the good and not looking at real issues. "The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it." He says do not believe all of they hype and believe what he thinks. -
Lesson 12: We Talk About Forgivness
Morrie thinks that people should focus on what has happened not what they think shouldve happened. He says "We...need to forgive ourselves...For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened." -
Lesson 13: We Talk About the Perfect Day
"That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living.' They talked about Mitch's brother and how they have become so distant and Morrie then reasures Mitch that someday "You'll find your way back to you brother." He wants Mitch to live a happy life and Make it to heaven to see both Morrie and his brother. -
Lesson 14: We Say Goodbye
Morrie and Mich both knewit was Morrie's time to go. Morrie was not scared nor happy, He had accepted the fact that he was going to die long ago, and the time was finally here. "This..... is how we say .... good-bye....." "Love... you," he rasped. This was there final Tuesday together, but the lessons learnd during the class would stay with Mitch the rest of his life, Along with the lessons, Morries legacy would follow. -
Morrie Passes
Morrie was ready for death. He knew his time had come and he accepted the fact that he was going to die long before he layed on his death bed. Morrie was a very strong individual, but he knew when the desease reached his lungs he would die, and he was right. The wise old man had no chance against the ALS in his Asthma ridden lungs. Morrie pased peacfully.
