Tuesdays With Morrie Summary

The book Tuesdays with Morrie is a real-life story about the author, Mitch Albom and his dying professor. The memoir consists of 27 parts in which it tackles about the real meaning of life and death. The chapters include aging, regrets, family, emotions, money, love, marriage, forgiveness, and death itself. Morrie Schwartz ' life lessons are summarized below.

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In a regular class, there should be a student, a teacher, a classroom, and the most important, there should be lessons. Tuesdays with Morrie showed an extraordinary way of teaching by having the meaning of life as its subject. The professor holds an oral examination but does not give grades to his student. Far from what is expected, the student is only one. Lastly, instead

Albom found out that his sociology professor in college is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a Lou Gehrig’s disease. Their last meeting is 16 years back when Albom graduated college. The said television show served as a bridge for Morrie and Mitch to meet since the student visited his professor. From then, the two agreed to have regular meetings every Tuesdays. They decided to make the last thesis, which is to have a book about what life really means.

Their meetings only lasted for 14 weeks. They only had 14 Tuesdays to talk about different topics in life, in which Mitch chose 9 of them and the rest is a personal choice of Morrie. On the first Tuesday, Morrie talked about the world and its culture. He opened up to Mitch that life, as most people know, is a cycle. It starts from being a baby and ends with the act of being a baby; being served and being dependent on others. On the second Tuesday, they discussed feeling sorry for oneself. He stated that people must accept their weaknesses and flaws as it is, as well us considering it as their strengths. They should not have self-pity on themselves. On the third Tuesday, they talked about having regrets. He said that people should make the most of their lives to avoid having regrets.