
by Mitch Albom
It talks about life lessons that feel personal, emotional honesty, themes that matter (love, family, marriage, forgiveness, death), simplicity, hope, and comfort.
A gentle and considerate soul with a good sense of humor and a taste for a peaceful life. The set of an old sociology professor embracing ALS and death around the corner.
His last lecture about life is every Tuesday.
No reading required, just come and listen.
Best part:
1. The teaching time (trust exercise with closed eyes and falling back)
2. About culture
3. About marriage
4. About death
5. tension of opposites
6. fear in aging and death
Mitch should not have said anything about the medical bill.
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A funny thing is that people usually cry when reading it, but not me.
I am touched and moved by the small, often unnoticed gestures. Like Morrie’s sense of humor, like the detach act, or the way he went inside the class and being quiet for 15 minutes, and when the students get confused, some might be bored, some enjoyed the moment with their thought, he suddenly said “see? Why are we often not comfortable with silence?” I find it enlightening.
Why didn’t I cry that much? Unlike reading his other book, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, I may have felt a strange sensation when Mitch revealed at the end that he wrote it to help Morrie pay his enormous medical bill. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with this novel. However, the book written without any motivation will usually find genuine sparks. You get me, right?
But it is indeed a great book.
Kindness hunger, and want to fill the tank of love.
"“feel it fully and detach”, “why would I envy people in their 25 or 30, I have been there and really look forward to what my 65-year-old self would like”. It is implicit to live your life to the fullest, so you don't need to regret it as you get older."
Simone Stolzoff
Morgan Housel, narrated by David Sterling