Lessons In Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

“If you’re always battling against getting older, you are never going to be happy, because it will happen anyhow” (Albom, 120). This quote is from Morrie Schwartz who died from ALS. Morrie gradually learned to accept his coming death and aging so he could learn how to be happy. He also decided to share many aphorisms and lessons he learned himself to his friend and previous student, Mitch Albom. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch writes his every Tuesday meetings down and explains the lessons he learned from his former coach. Morrie teaches people to live life through showing emotions, learning how to forgive, and knowing love goes on. Morrie expresses that showing emotion is an important factor for living life. Morrie believes that people should not be ashamed of showing their emotions. He thinks it is healthy to show how we feel and that it is perfectly fine to express those feelings. He states, “If you hold back on the emotions- you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid” (Albom, 104). I agree with Morrie’s belief that it is important to fully feel emotions and should not be

It is important to Morrie that people should forgive themselves and others in order to move on with life. Holding onto grudges is not something Morrie believes in as he says, “Forgive yourself, forgive others. Not everyone is lucky” (Albom, 167). I agree that it is important to forgive others and that people should be able to forgive themselves. Being able to let go of a grudge against himself/herself or somebody else will allow them to move on or start new. Unlike some others, I tend to struggle with forgiving others and myself. A very close friend who was like my sister turned away from me last year and did something I thought was unforgivable. To this day I still find myself holding a grudge against her at times, but I learned how to forgive her so I can let go and be able to move on from