Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. Now twelve million copies later in a new foreword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie s life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago.Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someday, I hope to meet a Morrie of my own.It s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. “A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.” I was utterly touched by how Mitch puts it.
According to Morrie, people who protect you is more important than anything else after all you will be taken care by your family and the loved ones and not by the money or the power you hold in the office. I was much touched by the chapter “family” and “the fear of aging.” Morrie points out how material possessions –money, power, strength, fame and title can’t replace your loved ones. Mitch asks his professor, “do you bother keeping up with news?” To this, Morrie says, “Do you think that’s strange?” Do you think that since I am dying, I shouldn’t care what happens in this world?”
Mitch notices a pile of newspapers in Morrie’s room. On their first Tuesday, they talk about the world. They decide to hold their talks like a class. So Mitch starts visiting him every Tuesday. He has no words when Morrie hugs him and said, my old friend, “You have come back at last.” Having not seen each other for the last 16 years, Mitch freezes. He decides to contact him and travels to Morrie’s place. In 1995, Morrie is interviewed by Ted Koppel on ABC’s nightline and Mitch sees him on the show. Although he had gathered countless money and material wealth, he doesn’t seem happy and satisfied with his life. Mitch has settled in Detroit and become a successful sports journalist. Mitch promises he will stay in touch but doesn’t.įifteen years later, Morrie falls sick with an incurable illness, ALS. Morrie becomes Mitch’s immediate mentor, that one person in life you have endless admiration and turn for knowledge and advice to. Morrie Schwartz taught him social psychology when he was a student at Brandeis University. It is written by his ex-student, Mitch Albom. It is about a wonderful professor’s reflection of life on –death, aging, marriage, family, love, society and forgiveness as he walks towards his inevitable death journey. Tuesday with Morrie, a book read and loved worldwide is one of my favorites. On this special day, I dedicate this book to all my teachers –with the message Happy Teachers Day and to remember the Father of Modern Bhutan, the Great Third, who embarked Bhutan to the outside world with modern educational reforms. It made me come an inch closer to understanding the meaning of life and that material wealth brings nothing more than a stressful life. It reminds me of my parents, teachers, lecturers and students from whom I have learnt to live and be a good human being. This May 2nd, I chose to review a book that I respect and have read twice.
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