“You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.” Undoubtedly, you should not live life with regrets. Do not wait until it is too late to resolve your issues. Always appreciate the little things that surround you everyday. In addition, do not fear illness, but accept it and live life doing what brings happiness. Live everyday to the fullest, just like it is your last before it is too late is what sources, Tuesdays with Morrie, “Live Like You Were Dying,” and “Factors that facilitate and hinder the manageability of living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in both patients and next of kin” all explain in their writing. To begin with, one should not live life with remorse or hold in thoughts that bring unsatisfaction. For …show more content…
As soon as your life takes a traumatic turn like Tug and Morrie your mind starts to appreciate things more. “And I watched an eagle as it was flying” (Mcgraw 2). Tim’s father started to appreciate nature after he was informed that he was carrying a fatal brain tumor. In the same way, Morrie teaches us to appreciate the little things like the rain falling and the people who make us who we are. “I look out the window everyday. I notice the change in the trees, how strong the wind is blowing. It’s as if I can see time is almost done, I am drawn to nature like I’m seeing it for the first time” (Albom 84). Once you know that your time on Earth is almost over, you start to appreciate the little things around you because in the end sometimes all you see are the small things that you never noticed before. “The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted” (Albom 84). Many people in this world only pay attention to materialistic things and do not realize the perfect world they have without those objects. Appreciate what is in your life already before it is too late. In addition, do not fear what comes unexpectedly, but accept it and live your life to the highest expectation. “And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter, And gave forgiveness I’d been denying”(Mcgraw 2). Once Tug found out he was sick he did not fear or ignore his issues, he overcame and fixed them. In “Factors that facilitate and hinder the manageability of living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in both patients and next of kin” patients did not do this. “Earlier episodes, attitudes and hatred of the disease obstructed acceptance of the situation. Thoughts about the future frightened them, because they were afraid they would be unable to plan and adequately organise their lives during the disease process and after the death of the
However, I am not going to spend a long time describing the nitty-gritty of this because there is an elephant in the room. Both of these writings are on a terrible chronic disease affecting millions of people worldwide. What’s worse is that millions and millions more do not even know that this disease exists. I remember when I sprained my ankle while playing baseball, it was so bad that I needed crutches for two weeks and had to keep my foot wrapped for multiple weeks after. The incident took me out for the rest of the season, where my little league team got very close to going into the postseason but fell short. Due to my absence, I felt partly responsible for my team’s loss. I cannot begin to fathom the effect that MS would have in my life
While thinking of death, thoughts of grief, despair and worry arise. Perhaps this is a product of the darkness often times portrayed of death from contemporary literature, movies, and music. Movies such as “Schindler’s List” and music such as Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night” are just a few examples of entertainment that show the darkness and finality of death. These forms of medium only present the idea, as no one who wrote them actually experienced death and therefore the dark thoughts associated with it are ambiguous. In “712 (Because I Could not Stop for Death)”, poet Emily Dickinson also shows the darkness associated but she has a different view of death. She writes from the standpoint of a narrator
“Another source of greatness is difficulty. When any work seems to have required immense force and labour to effect it, the idea is grand” (Edmund Burke).We may not enjoy tremendous obstacles while we’re experiencing them, but when they’re over, we can definitely see the benefits. In Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, the protagonist, Cole, has had to face many obstacles in his life, such as his abusive father, his neglectful mother and his anger. Many people can relate to Cole because they, too, have had many obstacles in their life. Overcoming obstacles makes Cole more empathetic and emotionally stable. Empathy is important because it is what allows humans to be human. Being mentally
Her essay is arranged in such a way that her audience can understand her life - the positives and the negatives. She allows her audience to see both sides of her life, both the harsh realities that she must suffer as well as her average day-to-day life. According to Nancy, multiple sclerosis “...has opened and enriched my life enormously. This sense that my fragility and need must be mirrored in others, that in search for and shaping a stable core in a life wrenched by change and loss, change and loss, I must recognize the same process, under individual conditions, in the lives around me. I do not deprecate such knowledge” (Mairs, 37). Mairs big claim is that she has accepted herself and her condition for what is it, yet she refuses to allow her condition to define her. Through her particular diction, tone, satire, and rhetorical elements, Mairs paints a picture of her life and shows how being a cripple has not prevent her from living her life. She is not embarrassed nor ashamed of what she is, and accepts her condition by making the most of it and wearing the title with
In Anatole Broyard's Intoxicated by My Illness, instead of confronting the reality of his illness, he tries to rise above it. From the moment he found out he had been diagnosed with cancer of the prostate, Broyard was composed about it. "He felt something like relief" he says. He figures you have two choices when your life is threatened, "you can turn towards it or away from it" He turned toward it and let the illness make him even more appreciative for being alive. Although he had realized for the first time that he didn't have forever he knows that life itself has a deadline, his might just come a little sooner than other peoples'. His friends found him courageous for thinking this way.
A majority of people in the 21st century take somethings for granted. In the novel “Tuesdays with Morrie.” One of the main Characters Named Morrie Schwartz, is an extremely lovable college professor, who in his late sixties, finds out that he is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The story of his last few weeks on earth is told by Mitch Albom, one of Morrie’s former students, who happends to reunite with him during his final days.
The Racist atmosphere in the South back in the 1920s was exceptionally oppressive. Due to that racist atmosphere many problems arose. In Ernest J. Gaines's “A Lesson Before Dying”, the two protagonist’s self-perceptions are affected by the racist atmosphere.
In Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying, readers truly get the impression that the south is defined by one thing: race. Although modern southerners know that the South is made up of and worth far more than its racial past, race does define many aspects of southern society, including memory, sense of place, the taste of the South, the voices of the South, and expressions of power.
Medical history has been filled with an array of diseases and illnesses, ranging from the common cold to deadly killers. Some are easily treatable and others can be terminal, but some of the worst are those that still remain without a cure; one such disease is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Imagine if you loss control of your body but your mind stayed unaffected. You would be a prisoner in your own body, all leading up to your death sentence. That is the sad fate for the people diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder was first described by Ran in 1850. This description was then expanded in 1873 by Charcot, who emphasized the involvement of the corticospinal tracts. In the United States, ALS is often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous ball player who was stricken by the disease in the midst of his career. (Yale School of Medicine, 2014)” In this paper will go through the definition, the process, the signs, the risk factors, etiology, and discus the known people that have suffered with this terminal disease.
For every action there is a consequence. In, “The Ways We Lie,” by Stephanie Ericsson she quotes, “We must consider the meaning of our actions”
This is the number one fundamental life precept that you must understand, accept and be totally faithful to, if you're going to be happy and successful.
In conclusion, life is filled with lessons. Some of them are learned through reading books, traveling, and watching old Disney films. In contrast, some are learned through mistakes, and hard times. As life goes on we will continue to grow up, find new interests, and meet new people. Along the way we will find things that we enjoy doing, and things we can’t stand. All of these things teach us lessons that make us the human beings we are today. I would never take back any of the things that I have done in the past because those are the building blocks that constructed me into the person I am today. I hope I will look back fifty years later and say, “Yea. It was a good life.”