Tuesdays with Morrie

an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
by Mitch Albom

Morrie Swartz is a dying professor, yet he shares his final lesson on life itself. Through his final dying 3 months, while he was cripplied slowly by ALS and losing his bodily functions, he teaches us how one can still live in hope, gratitude and joy... Something that many people around the world don't, even though they might be healthy, rich and enjoying all of life's comforts.

He points out that the popular culture around the world is wrong... All the blind chase for materialistic comforts and status, the struggles of making great achievements... So many people are running all their lives chasing their dreams, only to be trapped in an eternal cycle of dissatisfaction and wanting more, and to finally find that they don't really know what they really want in fact.

They do not realise that life is to be enjoyed daily. There's nothing at the end of the journey, but it is the journey itself that is enjoyable. The part where most people rush through in frustration, the part which has been taken for granted by so many..

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"Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back."

"You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you’ve find meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward."