Book Review Tuesdays with Morrie

 

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2000

BEST SELLING MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME 2006

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“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” 

GENRE      Memoir 

AUTHOR    Mitch Albom 

PAGES         192

YEAR OF PUBLISH 2000

Table of Contents Tuesdays with Morrie

1. The Curriculum
2. The Syllabus
3. The Student
4. The Audiovisual
5. The Orientation
6. The Classroom
7. Taking Attendance
8. We Talk About The World
9. We Talk About Feeling Sorry For Yourself
10. We Talk About Regrets
11. The Professor
12. We Talk About Death
13. We Talk About Family
14. We Talk About Emotions
15. We Talk About The Fear Of Aging
16. We Talk About Money
17. We Talk About How Love Goes On
18. We Talk About Marriage
19. We Talk About Our Culture
20. We Talk About Forgiveness
21. We Talk About The Perfect Day
22. We Say Good-Bye
23. Graduation
24. Conclusion

Book Review Tuesdays with Morrie

Book dedicates itself to a conversation between Morrie, a retired college professor, and his old student Mitch. Morrie discovers he is dying. And Mitch who became a journalist began meeting his lovable professor during his last days on earth.

Mitch was living a mediocre and unhappy life. He seems to be a work alcoholic, does not give time to his wife. During the initial days, Mitch occasionally visited Morrie and teacher-student talks could last for hours. Afterwards, it became a habit to visit Morrie every Tuesday.

The conversation covers vital things in life such as friendship, loss, love, health and so on. As days passed Morrie became weaker. Mitch helplessly saw his professor slipping into the arms of death. On the fourteenth day, Morrie died. In the end, Mitch regretted, to have spent more Tuesdays with Morrie.

Book changed the lives of millions of people. It captures the sentiments of a dying man, every word is golden teaching. The reader can picture himself as Mitch, struggling to find the meaning of life.

Lessons From Tuesdays With Morrie

For me the most memorable part was when Morrie Schwartz discusses things that we take for granted- love, relations, family and friends. He say "Love wins, love always wins". We tend to create lot of differences on countless parameters. But we are all alike and we must live in harmony. For our betterment. 

We tend to follow the path setup by society. It is good to socialize, but we must create our own culture, our way of doing things that can make us alive. Choosing things that we like to do and  people we love. It can make us a like which is more fulfilling.

Why You Should Read Tuesdays with Morrie

We all are in different phases of life. We have different aspirations.  But we share a common end. And what else can be more truthful than last words of a dying man. So far we have been trained to survive. Lets learn to live. No doubt it was a bestseller. It was really a like the subtitle "an old man, a young man and life's greatest lessons."

Quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

• Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
• Death ends a life, not a relationship.
• Love each other or perish.
• Accept who you are; and revel in it.
• There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
• Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it.
• Life is a series of pulls back and forth.
• There’s a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need.
• The slightest human contact was immediate joy.
• If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
• The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident. 

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