Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Published by Doubleday in September 1997
PRECIS: As morrie's death becomes more and more evident, Morrie's life becomes more and more inspirational. Morrie shares his experiences and feels the need to make sure people understand that they cannot let the materialistic things in life, get in the way of tasting what life has to offer.
"Lets begin with this idea Morrie says. Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."p.80
Death is a part of life, we all will someday cross that path. Everyone is so caught up trying to "live as if today is their last" but according to Morrie's standards people don't do that until it is too late. People live their lives wasting time when they should be spending it doing something actually worth while to themselves, something that they can say makes them feel good.
"The fact is there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family...Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, Love each other or perish." p.91
The importance of love is in my mind obvious. Connections, feelings and emotions are things that run deep in our veins as human beings and we all feel the need and the desire to love and to be loved in return. We all want that acceptance from within. The feeling that we can be loved. Life should be filled with love, I think that without it you cannot truly live life.
"I grin at my brother and we are united by childish pride. That wasn't so hard we think, and we are ready to take on death again."p.99
Children are so innocent and eager. They have no idea about real danger and real issues, they live in a bubble of safety and fun. Maybe we as adults or growing adults need to return to that time. We need to remember that life isn't that serious and having fun while living it is actually fun.
Throughout this book I am finding that Morrie is not only insightful, but relatable. I feel as if I have known Morrie before I read his story. It gives me a weird sense of home. I think that Morrie has become that mentor figure in the sense that he has been there and he has a very original opinion about life, he makes you think about your own life and what areas you're slacking in and how you can make your life better in that sense.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
HW 21- comments
Leticia-
I love how fluid your writing is. You can write as if you're thinking and I think that is important when you are a writer. Your personal thoughts and insights are interesting I think that you have a lot to say. "In our society, we try to make things work out best for the person is sick is by going to the hospital. Which can help, but there’s also something missing" I think that this line is particularly insightful and full of feeling.
Chris-
Hey chris, I thought that your blog was insightful and it made a lot of sense, but I think that one thing you can do is try and talk a little bit more beautifully. Ask yourself what can you do to make this have feeling. Instead of just retelling the situation, help it so that the reader's can feel what you felt when Beth came in and spoke about her husband's death.
I love how fluid your writing is. You can write as if you're thinking and I think that is important when you are a writer. Your personal thoughts and insights are interesting I think that you have a lot to say. "In our society, we try to make things work out best for the person is sick is by going to the hospital. Which can help, but there’s also something missing" I think that this line is particularly insightful and full of feeling.
Chris-
Hey chris, I thought that your blog was insightful and it made a lot of sense, but I think that one thing you can do is try and talk a little bit more beautifully. Ask yourself what can you do to make this have feeling. Instead of just retelling the situation, help it so that the reader's can feel what you felt when Beth came in and spoke about her husband's death.
HW 22 - Illness & Dying Book Part 1
Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Published by Doubleday in September 1997
PRECIS: Morrie is an inspirational, loving and unique individual. He offers more then the usual teacher would. In more you find motivation, beauty and love. As he dies slowly he can now offer life.
"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?" P. 34
-I think that it is interesting that Morrie would want to know so much about the successes Mitch has achieved. Morrie thinks that these things are considered success, not what job title he obtains or how much he makes. But real things, it's as if he thinks Mitch can survive only on these things.
"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work,don't buy it." P.42
-Morrie's ideas and theories make so much sense to me. Like why accept a culture if it doesn't fully make you happy or feel good about yourself? But it's not that easy, like it actually might be harder to reject the culture of America. But maybe your happiness is worth it, maybe the idea of telling anyone who has something to say "Fuck off." is the sweet satisfaction of it all.
"Because it's the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I'm working on it. I'm trying to enjoy the process. Enjoy it? Yes. After all I get to be a baby one more time." P.49
-You have to accept things that you have no control over. Once you have accepted them then you can learn to live around them. There is no point in making the little amount of time that you have left on earth miserable.
Morrie is having the inspirational accepting death. And I can only hope that when I go, I not only have time but that I can feel as optimistic about it, I would like to be able to reflect on my life, not only on the successes because despite what I think morrie believes those do matter, but on the relationships I've made and the relationships i've lost. I want to be able to tell people about love and how I lived my life so that they can take it and apply it to their own lives and maybe have a happier one.
PRECIS: Morrie is an inspirational, loving and unique individual. He offers more then the usual teacher would. In more you find motivation, beauty and love. As he dies slowly he can now offer life.
"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?" P. 34
-I think that it is interesting that Morrie would want to know so much about the successes Mitch has achieved. Morrie thinks that these things are considered success, not what job title he obtains or how much he makes. But real things, it's as if he thinks Mitch can survive only on these things.
"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work,don't buy it." P.42
-Morrie's ideas and theories make so much sense to me. Like why accept a culture if it doesn't fully make you happy or feel good about yourself? But it's not that easy, like it actually might be harder to reject the culture of America. But maybe your happiness is worth it, maybe the idea of telling anyone who has something to say "Fuck off." is the sweet satisfaction of it all.
"Because it's the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I'm working on it. I'm trying to enjoy the process. Enjoy it? Yes. After all I get to be a baby one more time." P.49
-You have to accept things that you have no control over. Once you have accepted them then you can learn to live around them. There is no point in making the little amount of time that you have left on earth miserable.
Morrie is having the inspirational accepting death. And I can only hope that when I go, I not only have time but that I can feel as optimistic about it, I would like to be able to reflect on my life, not only on the successes because despite what I think morrie believes those do matter, but on the relationships I've made and the relationships i've lost. I want to be able to tell people about love and how I lived my life so that they can take it and apply it to their own lives and maybe have a happier one.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
HW 21 - Expert #1
Some insights and experiences that stood out to me:
"In denial, and a man."
Once he was insured, he was given the best treatment, magnificent.
Fortunate enough to take time off and spend it with her husband, the best times of their marriage.
DNR- Do Not Resuscitate form.
Death is not pretty like in the movies, the body begins to deteriorate right before your eyes.
Sprinkling himself with water, cooling method or "return to the womb".
Buddist Monk told her that the signs of death would include his lack of desire to eat, and he would push his hands away as if he were pushing death away.
When Beth Bernett came and spoke about the death of her husband for 26 years, I didn't expect for it to touch me the way that it did. It was more then the typical sad story about a wife who loses her soulmate. It was more about the way she altered her life for death. Instead of her being completely sorrowful and mournful she accepted it. She learned that being sad about something you cannot change did nothing but made you more miserable. By accepting fate she found that she had some of the happiest times with her husband in all of their 26 years together. I think that that was the biggest lesson I learned from her, to not be completely sad. Enjoy death while you can because once its finalized, then thats it.
I've never heard of the idea that when people die they begin to push away as if they were pushing death away. I think it makes a lot of sense though, like if I were sick I too would push death away with all of the strength that I had left inside of my body. I wonder if that happens to the people left inside of hospitals do die, the ones addicted to pain medications that are meant to help them. I wonder if that happens to the people that no one cares about, do they welcome the grim reaper because he promises that someone will be there to finally care for them? This theory brings me a lot of questions. But it kind of makes me fell better. It gives me a sense if assurance that when someone I know is going I can kind of know exactly when they will time out of the world.
There were many things that I have learned from Beth Bernett. Her story was touching and I found that I myself felt the familiar sensation in my throat. The burning one that you try and wash down with your saliva but the thickness of it makes it nearly impossible. This is the same feeling I felt when my grandfather died. Why is it that we can feel so completely connected to a person we have never met through such a complex experience? Im still scared of death, but I fell that listening to Mrs. Bernett and reading these books I want to appreciate my life and when things like death happen around me I would like to be a little bit more accepting of it. It should help with the pain.
"In denial, and a man."
Once he was insured, he was given the best treatment, magnificent.
Fortunate enough to take time off and spend it with her husband, the best times of their marriage.
DNR- Do Not Resuscitate form.
Death is not pretty like in the movies, the body begins to deteriorate right before your eyes.
Sprinkling himself with water, cooling method or "return to the womb".
Buddist Monk told her that the signs of death would include his lack of desire to eat, and he would push his hands away as if he were pushing death away.
When Beth Bernett came and spoke about the death of her husband for 26 years, I didn't expect for it to touch me the way that it did. It was more then the typical sad story about a wife who loses her soulmate. It was more about the way she altered her life for death. Instead of her being completely sorrowful and mournful she accepted it. She learned that being sad about something you cannot change did nothing but made you more miserable. By accepting fate she found that she had some of the happiest times with her husband in all of their 26 years together. I think that that was the biggest lesson I learned from her, to not be completely sad. Enjoy death while you can because once its finalized, then thats it.
I've never heard of the idea that when people die they begin to push away as if they were pushing death away. I think it makes a lot of sense though, like if I were sick I too would push death away with all of the strength that I had left inside of my body. I wonder if that happens to the people left inside of hospitals do die, the ones addicted to pain medications that are meant to help them. I wonder if that happens to the people that no one cares about, do they welcome the grim reaper because he promises that someone will be there to finally care for them? This theory brings me a lot of questions. But it kind of makes me fell better. It gives me a sense if assurance that when someone I know is going I can kind of know exactly when they will time out of the world.
There were many things that I have learned from Beth Bernett. Her story was touching and I found that I myself felt the familiar sensation in my throat. The burning one that you try and wash down with your saliva but the thickness of it makes it nearly impossible. This is the same feeling I felt when my grandfather died. Why is it that we can feel so completely connected to a person we have never met through such a complex experience? Im still scared of death, but I fell that listening to Mrs. Bernett and reading these books I want to appreciate my life and when things like death happen around me I would like to be a little bit more accepting of it. It should help with the pain.
Friday, December 3, 2010
HW 20 - Thinking/Writing Groups
Luz Leon
Luz_leon93@yahoo.com
Normalisweirdluz.blogspot.com
My partners:
Christopher M. Lilcmm@gmail.com chrism23.blogspot.com
Letcia P. pichardleticia@yahoo.com LP-leticia.blogspot.com
Steven
More skilled: Luz my mom LLucyleon3@gmail.com
Less skilled: Serica my younger sister sweetyselena19@gmail.com
Luz_leon93@yahoo.com
Normalisweirdluz.blogspot.com
My partners:
Christopher M. Lilcmm@gmail.com chrism23.blogspot.com
Letcia P. pichardleticia@yahoo.com LP-leticia.blogspot.com
Steven
More skilled: Luz my mom LLucyleon3@gmail.com
Less skilled: Serica my younger sister sweetyselena19@gmail.com
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