Book: "Tuesdays with Morrie"
Prompt: Based on the 6 Tuesdays you have read about in Tuesdays with Morrie, choose which topic (The World, Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, or Emotions) that has had the most impact on you or inspired you. On your blog discuss the importance of this topic with your own opinions, including textual evidence (direct quotes) from the book.
The "Tuesday" I picked was the first one. "We Talk about the World." I picked this one for a variety of reasons. The first reason I picked this chapter was because it had almost all of the life lessons in the other chapter. It talked about how death made a person finally cry for another person. Also, when it talked about how to learn how to give love and bring it in. Another one is how Morrie crys for half the world. When he started to talk about what was happening in Bosnia he almost started to cry. This shows that we should be like Morrie and at least show some compassion towards the people that are suffering.
Mitch said that the death of a person could finally make a person cry for another person. "Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another." This is true. I don't want to believe it because we should always show compassion towards other people, but this is true. The death of someone that you have held close to you can make you shed a tear for them or maybe even a stranger. This is one of the things that impacted me in this chapter.
Another thing that impacted me was when Morrie said that you should learn to give out love and bring in love. "His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. 'Love is only a rational act.''" This impacted me very much because it is I have never really thought about love like that. That if we let it in we will become soft, but that isn't always the case. I think "Levine" is right. He did say it right. These are the things that have impacted me the most throughout the story so far.
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