Tuesdays with Morrie

‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom.

I read this book a couple of months back. The book was given to me by a friend who insisted I would like this book. And I did like it after reading it.

The author happens to be a student of this professor named Morrie during his college days. Morrie was his favourite teacher. After college he lost touch with his favourite teacher and got busy with his life while Morrie continued in his own track. This happens to be the scenario with everyone – no matter who your favourite teacher is you tend to not keep contact with them once you move one in life; although you do remember them always.

Morrie is diagnosed by a disease which has no cure and he would die in sometime. The disease starts from the leg and moves upwards making the body parts dead as it passes through. Morries knows he is going to die but he still wants to enjoy all he can while he is alive. Morrie decides to meet all his friends and spend every moment enjoying the moments.
Mitch on the other hand is busy in his own world trying to achieve all the success, working at breakneck speed. One day he watches Morrie on TV being interviewed in a famous show and comes to know oh Morrie’s disease. The circumstances in his life gives Mitch a forced break from his work and he decides to visit Morrie. It is the meeting that starts a series of meetings and it is the conversations in these meetings that take the form of the book.

The book is beautifully written touching the fine points of life, stressing on the important things in life and the true meaning of life. A person who is dying is trying to live every moment while people who are alive are not living. It talks about how Morrie saw life and how precious life was. He never let his disease stop him from enjoying life. And the conversations changed the life of Mitch and many others.

The book talks about the world, death, regrets, fear of aging, forgiveness, love and much more. The book teaches some very good life lessons and I would suggest one should read the book once.