I've read this book (Tuesdays With Morrie) sometime last year. It did, made me cry. It was indeed an awesome story, dramatic, and full of senses. A story with a pure heart and a honest soul. I've planned to post this a long time ago but just too unreasonbly busy... so it is only now I was able to do so. Here are some thoughts to ponder from the book:
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
>> Accept what you are able to do and you are not able to do.
>> Accept the past without denying or discarding it, learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it is too late to get involve.
>> Be at peace to yourself.
>> Be as human as you can be.
>> If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it, create your own.
>> Don't let go too soon... but don't hang on too long... you'll know it just when to change your mind.
>> Death ends a life but not a relationship.
>> We put our values on wrong things and this leads us to a very disillusioned lives.
>> Devote yourself in loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, devote yourself to creating things that gives you purpose and meaning.
>> If you're trying to show off for the people at the top, forget it! They'll look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it! They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.
>> Friends are great, but friends are not going to be here on a night when you're coughing and can't sleep, and someone has to sit up all night with you, comfort you, try to be helpful.
>> The most important belief in order to survive marriage is the belief in the importance of your marriage.
>> Marriage is a very important thing to do and you are missing a hell of a lot if you don't try it.
>> On lack of self-pity :
Professor (Morrie) : Me who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk, and could no longer answer his own door or dry himself after shower or even roll over in bed can still be happy.
Student (Mitch) : How could you be so accepting?
>> Why are we so embarrased by silence?... What comfort do we find in all that noise?
>> Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - even you're in the dark, even you're falling. (From The Cheerleader Story)
>> Once you learn how to die, you'll learn how to live.
>> I've been through all of them, I know what is like to be a child, delight in being a wise old man, how can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself.
>> Let every experience penetrate you fully, and that's how you are able to leave it! Take every emotions, cause if you hold back to the emotions, if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through it, you can never get to being detached - cause you're too busy being afraid. If you dive in those emotions, you can say - "Alright, I have enough, I'll detached!" Turn the faucet of emotions, wash yourself with emotions, it won't hurt you, it will only help you.
>> Unsatisfied lives, unfulfilled lives, lives that haven't found meaning... If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back, you want to go forward, you want to see more.
PS : Special thanks to Vane for lending me the book... God bless!