Tuesdays With Morrie

 I recently finished the film Tuesdays With Morrie. There are only three words to describe what this movie is about, death, love, and life. Morrie taught Mitch these lessons, but Mitch still could not accept the fact that his buddy would no longer be with him. Mitch wanted to trade everthing for Morrie to still be alive. He eventually proposed to Genine and of course she said yes because of all the changes she had seen in him. Morrie changed many things in Mitch, but he still had one lesson to learn that would continue for the rest of his life. "The subject was the meaning of life, and the teaching went on."

A couple Aphorisms from the film Tuesdays With Morrie:


-We're not letting ourselves be loved because we're to afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might loose.
-Work, money, ambition we burry ourselves in these things, but we never stand back and say is this what I really want.
-There is nothing shameful about being dependent.
-We must love one another or die.
-Death ends the life not the relationship.
-Love always wins.

My connections to these aphorism:


 "We're not letting ourselves be loved because we're to afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might loose." I can relate to this statement given by Morrie. I will always be scared of love. All of my family members who are truly close to me are all dead, dying, or sick. I don't want to cause pain to those who have already suffered so much. My grandmother who has cirrhosis of the liver is already saying her last goodbye's. My uncle has recently told me he has an inoperable tumor wrapped round his optic nerve. My life is difficult and love has found it's way in and out of my heart. I have lost so many who I've cared for and that is the reson why I'm so scared to love.

 Work, money, abition. I really don't see the importance to these at all. Sure we need to work, but in the end the work is only pulling us closer to the end of our lives. We love to work only because we want to get rewarded with something in return. Do we really get what we want or do we just work for what we think we need? Our ambitions should be what keeps us working closer and closer to our dreams. We shouldn't however have our ambition blind us. With to much ambition comes less love and that can be connected to my Uncle Fred. He sorry to say, has been blind folded from his true dream. He is afraid to love and in return he recieves no love from others. He has taught me the greatest lesson there is to learn and that is, never to forget where you come from. In the end my Uncle forgot where he was raised and from there his ambitions turned into faceless pride and he no longer cares for the greater good of his life but only for the money, recognition and his work.

 Independent or dependent? I would say independence is the key to success, but my sister and Morrie would disagree entirely. I am an independent lady who always strives to do her best. My sister n the other hand is very dependent upon me. She needs to have my oppinion on everything and anything pertaining to her eduactaion, fashion, style and interests. Although I think ths sometimes is not the best way to learn it is, she is only asking me because she wants to see things from another perspective and with that we can learn various things we thought were never possible. Mitch learned things from Morrie and my younger sister has learned things from me. It's just a chain link, we all depend on someone to teach us something, we've all become dependent upon our teachers and their knowledge we just choose not to accept it. Independence or dependence, it's all the same at one point.

 We must love each other or die. Without love there is no meaning to life. If I was to stop loving entirely I might have to be dead first. Although it is sometimes painful to love others we must love unconditionally. I can't say I have given up on love entirely because then I'd be lying to myself and to all of you. I have aways loved my family and I will always love them no matter what happens on this raging rapid we call life. I will always have to be reminded how to love, but that's how we live.

 Death ends the life not the relationship, it ends life. Relationships should always be strong no matter the circummstances. I recently formed a question that might make the world seem pessimistic. Why do we say till death do us part? Shouldn't we always be bound together no matter the cicumstances? Even if we are dead that relationship should stay alive. My relationship with mygrandmother will always be strong even after she is gone. Will this be the same for my grandfather? I sure hope so. We all have a special relationship that we hope will never end, but why should we hope when it truly never will come to an end? Realtionships consist of love and that love is what holds it together, we should always be grateful for everything we share with another person we love.

 This is what brings me to my last aphorism but the question is, does love always win? In my perspective yes. It has taken me a couple days to answer this question. Being with my grandmother made me feel what Mitch had felt with Morrie. Love will always win and it will always find it's way into people's hearts. It has taken me a while to realize that love comes from everyone and anything that is willing to be loved. Even if that person does not want that love and may not show it, deep down inside their hearts linger for that missing link that has not yet been filled with love. I will always believe that love overpowers everything. We all love and we all deserve to be loved.

Aphorisms and Connections to Tuesdays With Morrie

   I have recently viewed the movie, Tuesdays With Morrie, an Oprah Winfrey production. Morrie is a 78 year old man who worked at Amherst College. He was always cheerful and never lived in the past only for the future. He loved to dance and eat. In the Spring of 1994 Morrie was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

  At the same time one of his former students known as Mitch see's a news broadcast hosting his former teacher. Mitch is a sports collumnist who practically lived on his phone. In the broadcast Morrie states that he is going to die and if he dies he'd rather die knowing he's changed a few people out in the world. When Mitch views his old "buddy" from college he remembers the promise he was to keep. Mitch was supposed to keep in touch with his past professor. He did not keep his word in the pact so he decided to go to see his old "coach".

  What really caught my eye was the use of W.H. Auden's poem September 1, 1939. Although it was fragments of Auden's work it was a very sentimental moment during Morrie's living funeral. I still have yet to complete this motion picture, but so far I love the life lessons it has taught me. Tuesdays With Morrie will be a memorable movie that I will share with others around me.



Aphorisms for Tuesdays With Morrie:

• He was more than a teacher, he was a force.
• Dying is one thing to be sad about, living unhappily, now that's another matter.
• Aging isn't just decay it's growth.

   He was more than a teacher, he was a force. This is stated by Mitch as he introduces Mr. Morrie Schwartz. I can say that I have a Morrie in my family. My Morrie would have to be my Grandmother, she is the one who holds everyone together. My Grandmother is dying of cirrhosis of the liver without her it seems like the world might be at a standstill, but one thing I learned is that the world doesn't stop for anyone. That's when we all return back to reality, but she is my teacher and she is my Morrie.


  Now my second aphorism I can say I've lived. I'm going through a difficult time at the moment my grandmother is going to die and my great uncle whom I've never met, except on a computer screen, passed away a few days ago. Though death is the hardest thing to cope with we must continue to live. Living unhappily well that's where I come in. I have been put through the worst of stresses and am provided with therapy and love. To live unhappily is my lifestyle right now, but I am trying to see my situation in a different perspective. I am looking at my life through Morrie's eyes. I don't think he would like to see people wallow in saddness, but to live in the moment. Living in the moment is what I am going to try to pursue for the rest of my life thanks to Morrie.


 Aging isn't just decay, it's growth. The fact is in his words aging is not just decay and I think everyone and anyone in the world can prove this to be true. With aging comes knowledge and with knowledge comes wisdom. As we grow old we do not realize the precious knowledge that has been given to us, it has only been presented throughout the years. As we all grow we all learn. Even as young children we all start to grasp the basic of knowledge. To this day not only have I grown but so has the entire human race. We all have learned that age is just a number. No matter how old or young we become we will always grow through knowledge, love, truth and action.