HW 23

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom (1997)
Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group; Random House Inc.

Precis:
Mitch is visiting Morrie every Tuesday. He has to travel very far. He is recording the conversations and becoming closer to Morrie. Morrie is giving him a lot of insights on life and death. He talks about how people aren't actually living and fully experiencing the world and looking at their lives as a whole. Mitch is starting to realize problems in his life and question certain decisions he made in his life.

Quotes:

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"'Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'"

"He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. 'You see that?' You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do'".

Thoughts:
I think that this book is very true and I can relate to a lot of the things mentioned. For example the second quote. I think this is 100% true, I feel like very little of the people in the world are fully experiencing the world and life. But it made me wonder is it possible. People can't just drop their jobs and do whatever they want because they need their jobs for money because mostly everything revolves around money. The book is making me want to live differently but I'm not really sure how and I realize how easy it is to get caught up in every day life opposed to looking at life as a whole.