An aphorism is a saying that generally has a true meaning. It's a lesson that teaches us many different ways to love, live, and change ourselves to a more humane and sympathetic individuals. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, an old dying man named Morrie discusses the real meaning of life and gives life lessons to Mitch, a college student of his. While reading this book, Morrie’s life lessons and aphorisms has impacted my life in many different ways. Three aphorisms are “ . . . there is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life”, “ There is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family” and
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
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. . there is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.” The meaning of this aphorism influenced my life by revealing that it’s never too late to follow my dream. No matter how old you are or how much times you have failed, you can do all the things that you want. Some people may want to do something, but think that they have missed their chance when in reality they haven’t. I can relate to this aphorism of once when I fought with my aunt about her annoying children. She always made me take care of them when she went out shopping and would I always get blamed if anything happened to them. Her four kids irritated me with their misbehavior, until once I couldn’t handle them. I went up to my aunt yelling and saying inappropriate words. I felt really doleful afterwards, but I didn’t tell her sorry because I thought it was too late. I learned from this aphorism that it's never too late to do things. Last week I went to my aunt's house and told her that I was really sorry for what I have said to her and her kids. It wasn’t late to say one easy word,
In the movie, “Tuesdays With Morrie”, Mitch’s old professor, Morrie, is diagnosed with ALS. Mitch finds out that he is dying, and wants to fulfill the promise to visit him after graduation. Mitch starts visiting him. He talks to him and goes places with him, but when his condition worsens it is hard to go anywhere.
Life is short and it is up to you to make the most out of it. The most important lesson that everyone should follow and apply to everyday life is “never give up”. In the novel, “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines, the important lesson can be shown in the characters Jefferson, Miss Emma and Grant Wiggins.
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”.- Walter Mitty (Movie).
Again, I believe Taylor is missing some important feature to his theory. It seems he is correct in stating one should have their own sense of meaning to their life not just others’ perception that one’s life is meaningful. However, there is still the problem of giving equal meaning to everyone life that is doing what they love to do. As a result, to answer this problem one could suggest in order for one to have a meaningful life a person must be subjectively fulfilled by pursuing objectively valuable ends. This way it ensures the person must find meaning in their own lives as well as creating something that benefits many that will give others the perception the person has a meaningful life.
"Usually, the quest for the meaning finds expression in a commitment to action, and in one's personal relationships. The building up of a professional career, for example, demands that we identify an activity that suits us and in which we can flourish, and that we settle on a goal and objectives to be achieved. The same can be true of our personal relationships: if we decide to have a family and raise children, we organize our lives in accordance with this decision, and our family life gives meaning to our existence." (Lenoir 30)
In the movie Morrie stated many aphorisms revolving around life problems. Inspiring and Motivational, Morrie’s aphorisms have and still do have a major impact on students and adults. All his aphorisms teach a very important lesson and has personally changed me in a way. An example of an aphorism he stated would be, “When you’re in bed you’re dead”. Meaning when you are in bed you are wasting precious time when instead you could be out doing the things you love to do. Almost everyone reading the book or watching the movie have changed the way they live and
“When you’re in bed, you’re dead.” In this quote, Morrie Schwartz states that when a person is stuck in a place for too long, they tend to act like they’re going to be there forever. The person would start to act as though they would never escape, so they stop living their life the way they should be living it; like they’re foreverly young and alive. Morrie Schwartz was a person who believed this massively and lived by this. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches people to live life through showing emotions, forgiving oneself and others before it is too late, and through showing how to say goodbye properly.
"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive...." Joseph Campbell made this comment on the search for meaning common to every man's life. His statement implies that what we seem bent on finding is that higher spark for which we would all be willing to live or die; we look for some key equation through which we might tie all of the experiences of our life and feel the satisfaction of action toward a goal, rather than the emptiness which sometimes consumes the activities of our existence. He states, however, that we will never find some great pure meaning behind everything, because there is none. What there is to be found, however, is the life itself. We seek to find meaning so that emptiness will not pervade our every thought, our every deed, with the coldness of reality as the unemotional eye chooses to see it. Without color, without joy, without future, reality untouched by hope is an icy thing to view; we have no desire to see it that way. We forget, however, that the higher meaning might be found in existence itself. The joy of life and the experience of living are what make up true meaning, as the swirl of atoms guided by chaotic chance in which we find our existence has no meaning outside itself.
A friend of mine recently sent me an email with an aphorism that read, "Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to." I shuddered at its implications. According to this, the best things come to you; you do not elicit them. Trying hard, it seems, is irrelevant to what becomes of our life. I would rephrase it: "Try so hard that it becomes easy, and accept the best things as the best person to receive them." For it is only hard because you do not know that it is easy.
“Tuesdays with Morrie” is an extremely very moving book. The original author of this book is Mitch Albom, but the writer of the book is Mitch’s old professor at Brandeis University, Morrie. Morrie is the true hero of this book and he is so courageous. In the story, Mitch lost contact with his professor in the college, Morrie, for about 20 years. Mitch thought about Morrie a lot, but his wake up call came one day when he saw Morrie on the television. He promised he would keep in touch, but he didn’t. Mitch found out that Morrie was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). He said this disease leaves his "soul, perfectly awake, imprisoned inside a limp husk." Morrie was terminal by the time he had discovered the disease and he was going to die within a year. His wife, Charlotte took care of him while continuing to teach at M.I.T. Caring about Morrie, Mitch came back to his professor again, and took the final class that the professor began. Every Tuesday, once a week, this class was held in Morrie’s house. When they visit, Mitch brings Morrie food to eat, but later on, unfortunately he is not able to eat solid food anymore. This class focused on “The Meaning of Life.” It was taught from experience, it was not taught in school. Throughout the book, Mitch has flashbacks to when he and Morrie were together at Brandeis University. At Brandeis, Mitch and Morrie shared a relationship more like that between father and son, instead of teacher and student Morrie tells Mitch that he wants to share his stories with the world. The author wrote their class into a book-“Tuesdays with Morrie” and it is the “final gift” from Morrie.
That one statement has shaped the way I have lived the past seven months more profoundly than I could have expected. However, the impact of that statement did not hit me until the following Saturday. Every week, I go home to work part time in retail. After work on Saturday, my dad asked if he could talk to me about something. In the middle of the parking lot before I walked to the Quincy Center T station he broke the news to me. Granted I had known for almost a week but his telling me left me dumbfounded. The great family man who had been working so hard to maintain our family’s financial situation while my mom held down the fort was simply giving up. We talked for an hour, then he talked to my mom and headed on his way. I took the mountain bike I had asked my brother to throw in the car for me and rode to the train station, never looking back.
...n. Thus, as far as we are concerned, we should not want health more than illness, wealth more than poverty, fame more than disgrace, a long life more than a short one, and similarly for all the rest, but we should desire and choose only what helps us more towards the end for which we are created."(Meaning of life)
"Not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined end or way but to act that each tomorrow brings us farther than today."
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Increasing number of people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. When life loses meaning, it gives birth to frustrations, hopeless and social vices.