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I'm looking for Narrators to read out Book Summaries. Each Summary is about 11 Pages long and in this project - I'm looking for 4 summaries to be read - so about 44 pages in total.
Looking for all types of voices (as there's 4 positions available).
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I'm looking for Narrators to read out Book Summaries. Each Summary is about 11 Pages long and in this project - I'm looking for 4 summaries to be read - so about 44 pages in total.
Looking for all types of voices (as there's 4 positions available).
Thanks and I hope to hear from you soon!
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Since it was first published in 1997, has sold well over 10 million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. This makes it the best selling memoir of all time.
In 1999, the story was adapted into a television movie, which starred Hank Azaria as Mitch and Jack Lemmon as Morrie. The movie won four Emmy awards.
"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Before the writter began lessons with Morrie, he was an average young man, too scared to vent his feelings about death, marriage, love and other such serious matters. Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about Mitch’s renewed relationship with his favorite college professor, Morrie. After many years without keeping in touch, Mitch finds out that Morrie is dying from Lou Gehrig's disease.
Mitch flies to Massachusetts every Tuesday to have long talks about life's greatest lessons with his professor, whom he fondly calls "Coach." Each Tuesday, Mitch brings Coach his favorite foods and records their conversations.
During these meetings, Morrie shares his philosophy on life, which is deceptively simple to read, even though it is much harder to live. Morrie, the teacher to the last, and Mitch, his humble pupil combine to give us a parable of spiritual learning for our splintered age.
Morrie prepares an ambitious list of topics to cover which include Death, Fear, Aging, Greed, Marriage, Family, and Forgiveness.
The Curriculum:
Mitch’s classes took place every Tuesday. They began after breakfast and the subject was “The Meaning of Life”. It was anything but the regular, monotonic, and drab lessons we usually expect from old professors.
In fact, they were very different, no grades were given but you were expected to respond to questions and you were expected to pose queries of your own. It was also expected of Mitch to perform some odd physical tasks such as lifting his professor’s head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose.
No books were ever needed and the topics covered were love, work, family, aging, forgiveness and death. There was no final exam but Mitch had to produce one long on what was learned. The paper turned out to be a best seller and, consequently, an Emmy Award winning movie.
Rejection of popular cultural morals:
According to Morrie, our culture is a dictator under which we are made to feel guilty and suffer. If we live by the cultural rules that have been set by society, we can easily live a happy and comfortable life. If we disobey them, the opposite is true.
This is the underlying theme in the narration and each of Morrie’s lessons send the same all-compassing message that each person should develop his own culture and values like Morrie did, regardless of how other people view and treat you.
In his lifetime, especially during his last days when he was totally dependent on others, Morrie ignored the popular notion of culture. Instead he found his own which was based on love, acceptance and open communication.
Morrie felt that it is only when a person frees himself of the dictatorial cultural around him that he will be able to enjoy his life and rediscover fulfillment. He believed in the inherent good in people, but was also wary that all people possess the ability to do something that you may not agree with or like.
Love or Perish:
Morrie urges us to invest in the human family and build a community of those we love. He recites a quote by W.H.Auden “Love each other or perish”. Without love, we are birds with broken wings, and this is one of the most important lessons that Mitch learned.
The essence of love became clear to Morrie as he nears death, for without the presence and the meticulous care of his loved ones, he would not have battled on against a fatal disease for so long.
It is through love that we touch the lives of others and how our spirit lives on, even after we have left this physical world. Love is how we stay alive, even after we are gone.
Morrie’s last words to the people of the world were to be compassionate and to “Love each other or die”.
Feeling sorry for yourself:
Most of us spend hours and hours feeling sorry for ourselves. We feel sorry for ourselves when we are stuck in traffic, in an argument, when we are doing something we do not particularly want to do and in many different situations throughout the day.
Morrie teaches us that if we put a daily limit on self-pity, we would make better use of our time. If we limited our self-pity time to just a few possibly tearful moments and then we just got on with the day, we would find that we get more done and feel a lot better about ourselves.
Mitch came to know that Morrie gives himself a “good cry if he needs it” in the mornings and then forgets his predicament by concentration on the good things in life. Mitch realized that if Morrie, with such a debilitating disease could do it, then everyone else should be able to restrict the hours that they lose whenever they are feeling sorry for themselves.
Regrets:
Mitch wondered if Morrie had any regrets in his life, now that its coming to its conclusion .He asked whether Morrie ever lamented lost friends, or whether he would have done certain things differently if he was given another chance. Morrie nodded and replied that this is what everyone worries about and states, yet again, that this is a short coming of our culture.
Our culture does not encourage us to think about such important things until we are about to die. We are often so caught up with the material things in life that we forgot to stand back and ask ourselves if there is something missing in our lives or if we have achieved everything that we want.
Morrie fittingly and memorably ended this session by saying that we all need someone to probe us in the right direction and that someone is a teacher. If we do not have a teacher, then we will pass aimlessly through life without even considering what is most important to us. We will not ask difficult questions and find our own meanings. We will just pass through life like everyone else, accepting the answers that we conveniently find around us, in stead of trying to find our own truths. Mitch, like many of us, recognizes that his teacher, Morrie, was in fact sitting right in front of him.
Forgiveness:
Morrie was magnanimous by nature. He advised Mitch that there was no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. Those are the things we come to regret in our lives eventually. Pride and vanity are worthless possessions. Morrie narrated a story of how a friend named Norman never got in touch with him, when his wife had a serious operation. Norman tried to reconcile but Morrie would have none of it. A few years later Norman died of cancer and till his death, Morrie was pained by the fact that he wasn’t able to forgive him.
Morrie also explained to Mitch that we need to forgive ourselves first, before we can forgive others. When Mitch is puzzled about “forgiving ourselves”, Morrie explained that we need to forgive ourselves for all the things we did not do and that we should not get stuck up on the regrets of what should have happened. That will not help us grow as a human being.
Death:
“Everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it”. That is how Morrie started off his class on this particular Tuesday. The topic was “death” and Morrie was in a business like mood. In fact, he had even scribbled a few important notes on a paper, before Mitch arrived. If we believed that we are going to die, Morrie explained, things would be much different.
The best approach is to be prepared for death at any time. That way, we will be more involved with our lives whilst we are living as every moment will be treasured like it is the last. We need to ask ourselves daily,”If today is indeed the day that I die, have I done all I need to do? Am I the person I want to be?” Morrie said this is the most important thing. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we are doing things half-asleep, automatically just because some things have to be done.
Morrie explained that once we realize that we are going to die, we see everything very differently.
“Learn how to die, and you learn how to live”
We are the ocean, not mere waves:
The fear of death stems from limited awareness. To illustrate this point, Morrie recited a lovely story about a little wave, bobbling along in the ocean. The wave is enjoying the wind and the fresh air until he notices the other waves in front of him crashing against the shore.
The wave becomes sad and horrified seeing that it is going to be destroyed. Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and asks him why it looked so miserable. The first wave explains its predicament.
The second wave replies simply, “You're not a wave; you're part of the ocean.” What Morrie tried to emphasize is that fear of death is nothing else but the fear of the unknown. We must realize that we are not suffering individual deaths but are part of a larger scheme of events, part of an immortal ocean.
A living funeral:
Once Morrie went to his friend’s funeral who had suddenly died of a heart attack. He came home depressed. What a waste, Morrie thought. He recalled all the wonderful things that the people at the funeral were saying about the person who had just died, and unfortunately the dead person never gets to hear any of it!
Morrie had an idea. He made some calls. He chose a date. And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a "living funeral." Each of them spoke and paid tribute to the old man.
One woman, his cousin, wrote a deeply moving poem, that she also repeated it on his real funeral as well. Morrie cried and laughed with his friends and he was delighted to hear all the heartfelt things that people never get to say to those they love. His "living funeral" was a rousing success.
Emotions:
Morrie taught Mitch that by throwing ourselves completely into emotions, we experience them fully and completely. We then will be able to comprehend the real meaning of emotions such as pain, love, grief.
Once we understand what an emotion truly means, the next step is to detach ourselves from it. Morrie explained that once we allow the emotion to penetrate us fully, we will then be able to let go of the feeling easily.
Morrie tells us that this is what he experiences in his moments of seizure. He experiences fear, horror, anxiety, recognizes them fully and lets go by detaching himself. Morrie realized that if he starts to fight against any of these emotions, they will simply stay longer. Consequently, Morrie allowed these emotions to overcome him, so that they could pass quickly and he could return to feeling normal as quick as possible.
Morrie ended this class by saying that he wanted his death to be peaceful and serene. He did not want to go down coughing and spluttering in front of his loved ones. He did not want a negative emotion to be controlling him when he left the world. He wanted to be in control of himself.
That was eventually how it happened. Morrie passed away peacefully a few weeks and a few lessons later, on a Saturday.
Fear of Aging:
Morrie had lost his battle by the time he began talking about Aging. He had become totally dependent and even had to rely on others to do the simplest tasks. However, this did not dampen his spirits. He felt like it was going back to being a child once again and it reminded him of the unconditional love of his mother.
Morrie did not buy the concept of it being a “young man’s world”. He felt that too much emphasis is placed on youth. He felt that the youth of today have little understanding about life and that they are not wise. Morrie said that one should learn to embrace aging, just like he is did. With age comes wisdom and this wisdom is the greatest thing there is.
Aging is not decay, it is growth, explained Morrie. With age comes the understanding that we are going to die and our lives become better because of that. People want to go back to their youth because their lives have been unfulfilled. If someone finds meaning in their life, they would want to move forward rather than back.
The teacher further urged Mitch to stop battling against aging, because it will happen anyhow and we would stop enjoying life. We need to accept who we are and revel in that. Age is not a competitive issue and we shouldn’t be making it into one.
Morrie wrapped up this class by reciting another quote from his favorite poet, W.H. Auden:
“Fate succumbs many a species, one alone jeopardizes itself”.
Money:
We put our values in the wrong things, explained Morrie. This Tuesday, Morrie felt good because he had been entertained by a local capella group and he loved their music. It is things like money which disillusion our lives.
Morrie felt that some form of brainwashing is going on in the country. People believe that “more is good” i.e. more money, more property, more commercialization. We have been so fogged up that we no longer have a perspective on what is really important to us.
Morrie interpreted it our need for more money as really being a need for more love. Sadly, we are accepting material pleasures a substitute for what is really needed. Morrie emphasized this by stating that no money or power in the world could give him the feeling of love that he is experiencing at the moment. It is now that Mitch realizes that Morrie was living in wealthy home and his wealth did not correspond to a bank account.
We need to be clear that there is a difference between what we need as opposed to what we want. We may have a desire for a burger, when what we need is food. We never get true satisfaction from our desires. Instead, what really gives you satisfaction, according to Morrie, is to offer others what you have to give.
Being fully present:
When Morrie was with a person, he was fully with the person. He looked at him in the eye and listened as if he was the only person in the world. Mitch feels that people would get along so much better if everyone adhered to Morrie’s principle.
Morrie said that if we are talking to a person, we should be thinking of that person as well. Our focus should not be else where, such as on a meeting coming up later in the day or a problem. Mitch had earlier scoffed at this idea when he was in University, but now he realizes that nothing is more important than giving your entire time and mind to a person in a conversation.
Marriage:
Morrie had counseled many unhappy lovers in his years as a professor. He says that the kids in the current generation rush into a marriage and get divorced six months later. It is because they have no idea what they want in a partner. For that matter, they barely knew themselves.
Morrie and his wife Charlotte had been married forty years and Mitch noticed the telepathic understanding between the couple, often needing no more than a silent glance to understand what the other was thinking.
Morrie explained that we get tested twice in marriage; we get to find out who we are and who the other person is. There are a few rules that he mentions regarding love and marriage. We need to respect the other person, know how to compromise, talk openly on what is going on, and have a common set of values in life. If we do not follow these rules, we are going face lots of problems in a relationship.
The biggest value according to Morrie is the belief in the importance of marriage. He said that we would be missing a hell of a lot from life if we did not try it.
The Perfect Day:
Mitch asked Morrie what he would do if he was given twenty four perfectly healthy hours. Morrie replied that he would get up in the morning, do his exercises, have a lovely breakfast of sweet rolls and tea, go for a swim ,then have his friends come over for lunch.
After having a nice long chat with his friends, Morrie would then go for a walk, in a garden with some trees, watch their colors, observe the birds, take in the nature that he had missed for so long.
In the evening, He and his friends would all go together to a restaurant with some great pasta, then dance the rest of the night. Finally he would go home and have a deep, wonderful sleep.
Mitch was slightly disappointed. He expected Morrie’s idea of a perfect day to be more exotic but suddenly realized that such a day would indeed be perfect.
This important lesson tells us how to value each day. Most of us go through life thinking that we have lived only one or two perfect days. The truth is that we have lived countless more.
Good bye to the teacher:
On the fourteenth Tuesday, Mitch said good-bye to his teacher. Morrie could barely speak on that day and they both knew that it was a final farewell. Mitch did not know how one should say good-bye to a person dying. Morrie patted his hand weakly, keeping it on his chest and said,”This is how we say good-bye”.
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Since it was first published in 1997, has sold well over 10 million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. This makes it the best selling memoir of all time.
In 1999, the story was adapted into a television movie, which starred Hank Azaria as Mitch and Jack Lemmon as Morrie. The movie won four Emmy awards.
"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Before the writter began lessons with Morrie, he was an average young man, too scared to vent his feelings about death, marriage, love and other such serious matters. Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about Mitch’s renewed relationship with his favorite college professor, Morrie. After many years without keeping in touch, Mitch finds out that Morrie is dying from Lou Gehrig's disease.
Mitch flies to Massachusetts every Tuesday to have long talks about life's greatest lessons with his professor, whom he fondly calls "Coach." Each Tuesday, Mitch brings Coach his favorite foods and records their conversations.
During these meetings, Morrie shares his philosophy on life, which is deceptively simple to read, even though it is much harder to live. Morrie, the teacher to the last, and Mitch, his humble pupil combine to give us a parable of spiritual learning for our splintered age.
Morrie prepares an ambitious list of topics to cover which include Death, Fear, Aging, Greed, Marriage, Family, and Forgiveness.
Since it was first published in 1997, has sold well over 10 million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. This makes it the best selling memoir of all time.
In 1999, the story was adapted into a television movie, which starred Hank Azaria as Mitch and Jack Lemmon as Morrie. The movie won four Emmy awards.
"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Before the writter began lessons with Morrie, he was an average young man, too scared to vent his feelings about death, marriage, love and other such serious matters. Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about Mitch’s renewed relationship with his favorite college professor, Morrie. After many years without keeping in touch, Mitch finds out that Morrie is dying from Lou Gehrig's disease.
Mitch flies to Massachusetts every Tuesday to have long talks about life's greatest lessons with his professor, whom he fondly calls "Coach." Each Tuesday, Mitch brings Coach his favorite foods and records their conversations.
During these meetings, Morrie shares his philosophy on life, which is deceptively simple to read, even though it is much harder to live. Morrie, the teacher to the last, and Mitch, his humble pupil combine to give us a parable of spiritual learning for our splintered age.
Morrie prepares an ambitious list of topics to cover which include Death, Fear, Aging, Greed, Marriage, Family, and Forgiveness.
The Curriculum:
Mitch’s classes took place every Tuesday. They began after breakfast and the subject was “The Meaning of Life”. It was anything but the regular, monotonic, and drab lessons we usually expect from old professors.
In fact, they were very different, no grades were given but you were expected to respond to questions and you were expected to pose queries of your own. It was also expected of Mitch to perform some odd physical tasks such as lifting his professor’s head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose.
No books were ever needed and the topics covered were love, work, family, aging, forgiveness and death. There was no final exam but Mitch had to produce one long on what was learned. The paper turned out to be a best seller and, consequently, an Emmy Award winning movie.
Rejection of popular cultural morals:
According to Morrie, our culture is a dictator under which we are made to feel guilty and suffer. If we live by the cultural rules that have been set by society, we can easily live a happy and comfortable life. If we disobey them, the opposite is true.
This is the underlying theme in the narration and each of Morrie’s lessons send the same all-compassing message that each person should develop his own culture and values like Morrie did, regardless of how other people view and treat you.
In his lifetime, especially during his last days when he was totally dependent on others, Morrie ignored the popular notion of culture. Instead he found his own which was based on love, acceptance and open communication.
Morrie felt that it is only when a person frees himself of the dictatorial cultural around him that he will be able to enjoy his life and rediscover fulfillment. He believed in the inherent good in people, but was also wary that all people possess the ability to do something that you may not agree with or like.
Love or Perish:
Morrie urges us to invest in the human family and build a community of those we love. He recites a quote by W.H.Auden “Love each other or perish”. Without love, we are birds with broken wings, and this is one of the most important lessons that Mitch learned.
The essence of love became clear to Morrie as he nears death, for without the presence and the meticulous care of his loved ones, he would not have battled on against a fatal disease for so long.
It is through love that we touch the lives of others and how our spirit lives on, even after we have left this physical world. Love is how we stay alive, even after we are gone.
Morrie’s last words to the people of the world were to be compassionate and to “Love each other or die”.
Feeling sorry for yourself:
Most of us spend hours and hours feeling sorry for ourselves. We feel sorry for ourselves when we are stuck in traffic, in an argument, when we are doing something we do not particularly want to do and in many different situations throughout the day.
Morrie teaches us that if we put a daily limit on self-pity, we would make better use of our time. If we limited our self-pity time to just a few possibly tearful moments and then we just got on with the day, we would find that we get more done and feel a lot better about ourselves.
Mitch came to know that Morrie gives himself a “good cry if he needs it” in the mornings and then forgets his predicament by concentration on the good things in life. Mitch realized that if Morrie, with such a debilitating disease could do it, then everyone else should be able to restrict the hours that they lose whenever they are feeling sorry for themselves.
Regrets:
Mitch wondered if Morrie had any regrets in his life, now that its coming to its conclusion .He asked whether Morrie ever lamented lost friends, or whether he would have done certain things differently if he was given another chance. Morrie nodded and replied that this is what everyone worries about and states, yet again, that this is a short coming of our culture.
Our culture does not encourage us to think about such important things until we are about to die. We are often so caught up with the material things in life that we forgot to stand back and ask ourselves if there is something missing in our lives or if we have achieved everything that we want.
Morrie fittingly and memorably ended this session by saying that we all need someone to probe us in the right direction and that someone is a teacher. If we do not have a teacher, then we will pass aimlessly through life without even considering what is most important to us. We will not ask difficult questions and find our own meanings. We will just pass through life like everyone else, accepting the answers that we conveniently find around us, in stead of trying to find our own truths. Mitch, like many of us, recognizes that his teacher, Morrie, was in fact sitting right in front of him.
Forgiveness:
Morrie was magnanimous by nature. He advised Mitch that there was no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. Those are the things we come to regret in our lives eventually. Pride and vanity are worthless possessions. Morrie narrated a story of how a friend named Norman never got in touch with him, when his wife had a serious operation. Norman tried to reconcile but Morrie would have none of it. A few years later Norman died of cancer and till his death, Morrie was pained by the fact that he wasn’t able to forgive him.
Morrie also explained to Mitch that we need to forgive ourselves first, before we can forgive others. When Mitch is puzzled about “forgiving ourselves”, Morrie explained that we need to forgive ourselves for all the things we did not do and that we should not get stuck up on the regrets of what should have happened. That will not help us grow as a human being.
Death:
“Everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it”. That is how Morrie started off his class on this particular Tuesday. The topic was “death” and Morrie was in a business like mood. In fact, he had even scribbled a few important notes on a paper, before Mitch arrived. If we believed that we are going to die, Morrie explained, things would be much different.
The best approach is to be prepared for death at any time. That way, we will be more involved with our lives whilst we are living as every moment will be treasured like it is the last. We need to ask ourselves daily,”If today is indeed the day that I die, have I done all I need to do? Am I the person I want to be?” Morrie said this is the most important thing. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we are doing things half-asleep, automatically just because some things have to be done.
Morrie explained that once we realize that we are going to die, we see everything very differently.
“Learn how to die, and you learn how to live”
We are the ocean, not mere waves:
The fear of death stems from limited awareness. To illustrate this point, Morrie recited a lovely story about a little wave, bobbling along in the ocean. The wave is enjoying the wind and the fresh air until he notices the other waves in front of him crashing against the shore.
The wave becomes sad and horrified seeing that it is going to be destroyed. Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and asks him why it looked so miserable. The first wave explains its predicament.
The second wave replies simply, “You're not a wave; you're part of the ocean.” What Morrie tried to emphasize is that fear of death is nothing else but the fear of the unknown. We must realize that we are not suffering individual deaths but are part of a larger scheme of events, part of an immortal ocean.
A living funeral:
Once Morrie went to his friend’s funeral who had suddenly died of a heart attack. He came home depressed. What a waste, Morrie thought. He recalled all the wonderful things that the people at the funeral were saying about the person who had just died, and unfortunately the dead person never gets to hear any of it!
Morrie had an idea. He made some calls. He chose a date. And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a "living funeral." Each of them spoke and paid tribute to the old man.
One woman, his cousin, wrote a deeply moving poem, that she also repeated it on his real funeral as well. Morrie cried and laughed with his friends and he was delighted to hear all the heartfelt things that people never get to say to those they love. His "living funeral" was a rousing success.
Emotions:
Morrie taught Mitch that by throwing ourselves completely into emotions, we experience them fully and completely. We then will be able to comprehend the real meaning of emotions such as pain, love, grief.
Once we understand what an emotion truly means, the next step is to detach ourselves from it. Morrie explained that once we allow the emotion to penetrate us fully, we will then be able to let go of the feeling easily.
Morrie tells us that this is what he experiences in his moments of seizure. He experiences fear, horror, anxiety, recognizes them fully and lets go by detaching himself. Morrie realized that if he starts to fight against any of these emotions, they will simply stay longer. Consequently, Morrie allowed these emotions to overcome him, so that they could pass quickly and he could return to feeling normal as quick as possible.
Morrie ended this class by saying that he wanted his death to be peaceful and serene. He did not want to go down coughing and spluttering in front of his loved ones. He did not want a negative emotion to be controlling him when he left the world. He wanted to be in control of himself.
That was eventually how it happened. Morrie passed away peacefully a few weeks and a few lessons later, on a Saturday.
Fear of Aging:
Morrie had lost his battle by the time he began talking about Aging. He had become totally dependent and even had to rely on others to do the simplest tasks. However, this did not dampen his spirits. He felt like it was going back to being a child once again and it reminded him of the unconditional love of his mother.
Morrie did not buy the concept of it being a “young man’s world”. He felt that too much emphasis is placed on youth. He felt that the youth of today have little understanding about life and that they are not wise. Morrie said that one should learn to embrace aging, just like he is did. With age comes wisdom and this wisdom is the greatest thing there is.
Aging is not decay, it is growth, explained Morrie. With age comes the understanding that we are going to die and our lives become better because of that. People want to go back to their youth because their lives have been unfulfilled. If someone finds meaning in their life, they would want to move forward rather than back.
The teacher further urged Mitch to stop battling against aging, because it will happen anyhow and we would stop enjoying life. We need to accept who we are and revel in that. Age is not a competitive issue and we shouldn’t be making it into one.
Morrie wrapped up this class by reciting another quote from his favorite poet, W.H. Auden:
“Fate succumbs many a species, one alone jeopardizes itself”.
Money:
We put our values in the wrong things, explained Morrie. This Tuesday, Morrie felt good because he had been entertained by a local capella group and he loved their music. It is things like money which disillusion our lives.
Morrie felt that some form of brainwashing is going on in the country. People believe that “more is good” i.e. more money, more property, more commercialization. We have been so fogged up that we no longer have a perspective on what is really important to us.
Morrie interpreted it our need for more money as really being a need for more love. Sadly, we are accepting material pleasures a substitute for what is really needed. Morrie emphasized this by stating that no money or power in the world could give him the feeling of love that he is experiencing at the moment. It is now that Mitch realizes that Morrie was living in wealthy home and his wealth did not correspond to a bank account.
We need to be clear that there is a difference between what we need as opposed to what we want. We may have a desire for a burger, when what we need is food. We never get true satisfaction from our desires. Instead, what really gives you satisfaction, according to Morrie, is to offer others what you have to give.
Being fully present:
When Morrie was with a person, he was fully with the person. He looked at him in the eye and listened as if he was the only person in the world. Mitch feels that people would get along so much better if everyone adhered to Morrie’s principle.
Morrie said that if we are talking to a person, we should be thinking of that person as well. Our focus should not be else where, such as on a meeting coming up later in the day or a problem. Mitch had earlier scoffed at this idea when he was in University, but now he realizes that nothing is more important than giving your entire time and mind to a person in a conversation.
Marriage:
Morrie had counseled many unhappy lovers in his years as a professor. He says that the kids in the current generation rush into a marriage and get divorced six months later. It is because they have no idea what they want in a partner. For that matter, they barely knew themselves.
Morrie and his wife Charlotte had been married forty years and Mitch noticed the telepathic understanding between the couple, often needing no more than a silent glance to understand what the other was thinking.
Morrie explained that we get tested twice in marriage; we get to find out who we are and who the other person is. There are a few rules that he mentions regarding love and marriage. We need to respect the other person, know how to compromise, talk openly on what is going on, and have a common set of values in life. If we do not follow these rules, we are going face lots of problems in a relationship.
The biggest value according to Morrie is the belief in the importance of marriage. He said that we would be missing a hell of a lot from life if we did not try it.
The Perfect Day:
Mitch asked Morrie what he would do if he was given twenty four perfectly healthy hours. Morrie replied that he would get up in the morning, do his exercises, have a lovely breakfast of sweet rolls and tea, go for a swim ,then have his friends come over for lunch.
After having a nice long chat with his friends, Morrie would then go for a walk, in a garden with some trees, watch their colors, observe the birds, take in the nature that he had missed for so long.
In the evening, He and his friends would all go together to a restaurant with some great pasta, then dance the rest of the night. Finally he would go home and have a deep, wonderful sleep.
Mitch was slightly disappointed. He expected Morrie’s idea of a perfect day to be more exotic but suddenly realized that such a day would indeed be perfect.
This important lesson tells us how to value each day. Most of us go through life thinking that we have lived only one or two perfect days. The truth is that we have lived countless more.
Good bye to the teacher:
On the fourteenth Tuesday, Mitch said good-bye to his teacher. Morrie could barely speak on that day and they both knew that it was a final farewell. Mitch did not know how one should say good-bye to a person dying. Morrie patted his hand weakly, keeping it on his chest and said,”This is how we say good-bye”.
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Since it was first published in 1997, has sold well over 10 million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. This makes it the best selling memoir of all time.
In 1999, the story was adapted into a television movie, which starred Hank Azaria as Mitch and Jack Lemmon as Morrie. The movie won four Emmy awards.
"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Before the writter began lessons with Morrie, he was an average young man, too scared to vent his feelings about death, marriage, love and other such serious matters. Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about Mitch’s renewed relationship with his favorite college professor, Morrie. After many years without keeping in touch, Mitch finds out that Morrie is dying from Lou Gehrig's disease.
Mitch flies to Massachusetts every Tuesday to have long talks about life's greatest lessons with his professor, whom he fondly calls "Coach." Each Tuesday, Mitch brings Coach his favorite foods and records their conversations.
During these meetings, Morrie shares his philosophy on life, which is deceptively simple to read, even though it is much harder to live. Morrie, the teacher to the last, and Mitch, his humble pupil combine to give us a parable of spiritual learning for our splintered age.
Morrie prepares an ambitious list of topics to cover which include Death, Fear, Aging, Greed, Marriage, Family, and Forgiveness.
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