Life's Greatest Lesson

Life's Greatest Lesson

Morrie Schwartz was an intelligent, interesting senior citizen that touched a lot of people, especially Mitch Albom. Morrie passed on a lot of his knowledge in the last few months of his life, due to amyotrophic lareral sclerosis (ALS). This paper will touch on Morrie's philosophy of life, what he says is important and valuable, and also the struggles and problems of life. I will also compare Morrie's message with other philosophies and also give my opinion about Morrie's theory of human nature and philosophy of life. Morrie's philosophy of life is full of many ideas and to better understand it it's easier to break it down into parts. One of the philosophies was to cherish family and to be more open about your emotions so that you will not regret it when you or a loved one dies. Another one of Morrie's philosophies is to be open to forgiveness the following quote shows how Morrie regrets not forgiving one of his closest friends. " Over the years, I met Norman a few times and he always tried to reconcile, but I didn't accept it. I wasn't satisfied with his explanation. I was prideful. Mitch...a few years ago...he died of cancer. I never got to forgive him" (Albom p. 166). That quote showed how Morrie deeply regrets not forgiving his friend, for something he should have, and how not forgiving him will bother him for the rest of his life. Another part of Morrie's philosophy has to do with culture. The following quote shows how strongly he felt about the way American people should live. "You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.....The little things I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone or any society determine ...

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...Morrie would want to help this person, he would want to answer their questions and help them find their answers. He would agree with their need to find their answer and that they always want more, always get the most out of life. To summarize this paper I agree with Morrie and his view of human nature and his philosophy of life. I think you should always value family and friends more than material things. You should also live life to the it's fullest and share your thoughts with others because you never know when you or the other person might not be around anymore. As for adding anything to Morrie's ideas, I don't think I would. Morrie's philosophy would be a good one to live by and the main point to remember would be you never know when the person you care about will be gone. So tell them how you feel about them and share your knowledge with everyone that you can.