Response To Tuesdays With Morrie

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Tuesdays with Morrie is a story that made me think more than any other story. Not because it was difficult to comprehend, but it made me think about what the literature meant, how what Morrie said affected Mitch, and how it affected me. Tuesdays with Morrie makes many questions roll through my head like, “Am I living my life the way Morrie tells Mitch? Am I happy with myself? Will I work to make myself happy and achieve my goals in adult life? Or will I be unhappy and not give back to my community?” Every section, page, paragraph, sentence, and phrase makes me question my life, evaluate how I think, and think about how I will change. As I read and think about Tuesdays with Morrie the two topics that constantly come back to me are life and death, the scariest things in the world. That’s what I thought before Tuesdays with Morrie, but now I know death doesn’t have to be scary and life is not always something to fear though it is often times scary. (It holds many unknown pathways and it is up to me to guide myself down the one that is right for me.) …show more content…

I mean who has never been scared of death? You leave your home and your loved ones. In my faith I believe that my soul will rest peacefully and joyfully in Heaven with God, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t be scared to leave the world I have always known. Dying doesn’t have to be scary because, “You’re not a wave, you are part of the ocean.” I am put on Earth with billions of others, and I will find my purpose and where I am supposed to go. Eventually I will crash into the shore, but in doing so I will give back to future generations. Everything happens in a cycle and everyone dies eventually. So I cannot think of why to be sorrowful and dwell on the fact you will no longer be living when you have had a joyous life and made your impact on two people, a hundred, a thousand, or the

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