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Tuesdays with Morrie

21 January 2004 | No Comments | Archive/Search

My husband gave me the book “Tuesdays with Morrie” for Christmas this year. I had been wanting to pick it up since I first heard about it from Oprah’s Book Club, but just never got around to it. So anyway, I got it and started reading it. The book isn’t very big and I could have easily finished it in a few hours, but instead I read it a few chapters at a time so that I could really take in the message the author was offering me. I am now down to the last few chapters and find myself hesitating on finishing it.

You know from the very beginning of the book that Morrie will die. I can tell you that here, because it really isn’t any big secret. That fact is revealed in the first few pages. I don’t think it is the death itself that I am trying to avoid, but perhaps the message.

In short, the book is about an old professor who is dying, and a former college student of his who comes to spend the last months of his life with him. They spend time together every Tuesday…talking, sharing, being together. The old man shares his life wisdoms with the younger man, and the one thing that I have gotten out of this that I just can’t shake is that as people, we need to stop our quest for success and get back to what is more important: each other.

Maybe that is why I am afraid to finish it. I don’t want to see the young man learn the lesson that I know I need to learn for myself. It was easy for the younger of the two to find himself caught up in his career, moved away to a new city, and not spending time to nurture relationships with those around him…or those he had once had connections with.

Part of my New Year’s Resolutions this year was to make more of an effort to connect/reconnect with people…to focus on relationships, to live for what is really important. Through my writing (hence the revival of this blog), through my actions and through my attempts to rekindle friendships I have seen just how far one can become removed from those around them. I read about it in “Tuesdays With Morrie”, but I also had been living it.

Overall, great book! I recommend it. It truly is life changing. Now, I just need to figure out how to get myself to finish it!!

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