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Important lessons Morrie teaches Mitch from the book Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie...

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Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie

The action takes place at the end of 1979. Every Tuesday, the boy visits an elderly man to learn about the meaning of life. Professor Morrie Schwartz was an outstanding Doctor of Sociology. But for Mitch he is a special teacher, he is not only a teacher, but also a mentor and friend. Tuesday with Morrie is a book of life lessons that Morrie taught his student Mitch. The professor's last course: his own death. The professor struggled with ALS and taught his student Mitch many life lessons in the last 6 months of his life. The three most important lessons Mitch learns after talking to Morrie are that love keeps us alive even after we’re gone, we need to forgive ourselves, and the third lesson is that without love, life loses its meaning.

One of the most important lessons for Mitch was the lesson that people's love keeps us remembered even after we died. Morrie told Mitch that one of his friends asked him “If I worried about being forgotten after I died?” ( Albom 133). It made Mitch think about what to do while we are alive so that others will remember us after we die? But Morrie was not afraid to be forgotten. He explained the reason: “And love is how you stay alive, even after you’re gone.” (Albom 133). Morrie taught Mitch that the most important thing is the love and relationships we have with people. This is what will keep us in their memory - our words, our actions, our attitude, our feelings. People who love us will never forget about us, even if we are gone. This

lesson was useful for Mitch because he realized that he had to show feelings, do things, speak and love.

The next and equally important lesson was the lesson of forgiveness. Morris said “Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.” ( Albom 164). The way Morrie has clearly put forgiving yourself before forgiving others shows how important this is. We cannot completely forgive others if we are angry with ourselves. Our life will not be happy if all we do is regret. Morrie continued “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.” (Albom 166). We always think that if we had acted differently that day, our life would have been different, we think that if we had said it differently, then our life could have been better than now, if this did not happen to us, now we would be in a different place, but we cannot control everything and cannot know how your life will turn out if we do this or that. But we need to forgive ourselves for what we did not do in the past or for what we did wrong and stop regretting, all that we have now and what we can change is only the present and the future. This is what Morrie wanted to teach Mitch. Mitch was not happy with the way he lived his life. But after that he realized that regrets have no meaning, he can’t change anything. Thinking about it helps Mitch change his outlook on life.

Morrie's third lesson was to teach Mitch to love others and let them love him. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” ( Albom 52). Mitch

learned that you need to allow yourself to be loved, but at the same time, it is very important to love. Morrie called it “the most important thing.” But why? “Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said “Love is the only rational act.” (Albom 52). It changed Mitch’s life because he realized that he deserves love regardless of what he has done or not done in his life. Rational means logical, meaningful. He realized that without love, our life becomes meaningless and without logic. Sometimes, we think that we don’t deserve love. But we need to have love in our life. Because life without love has no purpose. It becomes meaningless, meaningless to the point that it affects all our sorrow, leading to pain and loss. Morrie showed that love must come in. If we choose to let it in, our life will be filled with joy and meaning.

Mitch is changing and becoming more attentive, responsive and kind. Looking at Morrie Mitch changes - he understands how important it is to appreciate the time he has. At this time, you must love, forgive, move on and live so that you will never be forgotten, even after you're gone. After lessons with Morrie, Mitch becomes more loving and caring and this changes his life. Professor Morrie Schwartz's last course helped the boy completely rethink his life. Later, with this book, Mitch Albom helped many people change their lives - by learning from Morrie.We must appreciate the most important thing that we have - our time.

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 ew York, Random House, Inc., 1997. Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie. N...