HW 24

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


Precis:
Morrie is getting even closer to dying. He needs someone to wipe his ass now. Even though he's very independent, he still manages to not be embarrassed and has a positive view point about it. He tells Mitch how he doesn't mind aging because he has been all the younger ages already and as he gets older he gets more knowledge and understand life and death more.

Quotes:
"I'm an independent person, so my inclination was to fight all of this-being helped from the car, having someone else dress me. I felt a little ashamed, because our culture tells us we should be ashamed if we can't wipe our own behind."

"It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child . It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it."

"Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country, Owing things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good... You can't substitue material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship."

Thoughts:
I think the ideas Morrie shares are very interesting and true. I noticed that most of them the answer to all of the problems is love. Also that society leads to a lot of the problems. I agree with this, I think because of this it makes it very hard to enjoy life and see things clearly. Society can brainwash people (as he says in the 3rd quote above) and you can easily get caught up in everyday life and basically sleepwalking around every day without experiencing life to the full extent. These things can make it almost impossible for someone to really enjoy life. We are automatically brought up in this mindset because of how society is shaped. The most important thing in someone's life is often related to money, you have to do well in school, so you can go to a good college, so you can get a good job, so you can make good money. But in my opinion money definitely is not the most important part of life. So what's the point?