HW#23

I am reading Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom. It was published by Double Day, in 1997.

Precis: As I continue to spend my Tuesdays with Morrie, his health gets progressively worse. He has finally reached the point where he is completely reliant on others, being unable to wipe his own butt. As he nears his death I realize more and more that my life is incomplete. Even on his deathbed, Morrie is a happier man than I am.

-“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” (Albom, 104)
-“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting here dying, when you need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling your looking for, no matter how much of it you have.” (Albom, 125)
-“The truth is you don’t get satisfaction from those things you know what really gives you satisfaction? What? Offering others what you have to give” (Albom, 126)

My eyes are continuing to open as I read. What is the point of life? Society tells us that money will make us happy and we all pretty much buy into that. For example the holidays, now they are so commercialized and generally what makes people happy on the holidays are materialistic things. I am one of these people. Although I enjoy my family time, I still very much appreciate the material things and would feel very different without them on the holidays. Society has shaped my perception of true happiness and Morrie has different ideas on what it is.