Hw #23

Book: "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
Published by Doubleday in September 1997

Precis: Morrie's illness is getting worse. All i can do for him is listen to him and be there for him as a friend. I fear that our time together will end soon, but I've been learning a lot from Morrie's experience with illness and knowing that he is going to die ,that have opened my eyes to living my life differently.

“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Accepting death is the first step in thinking about and approaching life from a different angle. This is different from Mitch's approach to death, he's worried about all the wrong things according to Morrie and it's not just about dying.

" All right, it's just fear , I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is."
Death and illness are scary, but we can't let our fears about them or anything stop us from living. We have to come to terms with our fears.

"We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives."
We tend to focus on and care about things that aren't very important. That if we were to die tomorrow we wouldn't care about. Why is it that we do? Many of us are living meaningless lives because of this.

People start to live and do things differently when they know they are gong to die.
I don't think that we should wait till the end or when it's too late to start approaching the way we live differently. Instead of worrying about stuff that isn't so important we should refocus on the things that are, before we end up on our death beds with regrets. We should try and live more meaningful lives.