Book report : Tuesdays with Morrie

Title : Tuesdays with Morrie
Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Se-jong
Year : 2004

Voca
1. be up to : endure, bear
2. stillborn birth : 유산, 사산
3. mull over : consider
4. I'm lost : I can't understanding
5. unconditional love : 무조건적인 사랑
6. brainwashing : 세뇌


Everyone knows we're going to die, but nobody belives it because many people think that they don't face with death yet. However, if you must be die in a few monthes or years, how do you accept it? Maybe lots of people don't adopt it. There is no doubt that death attacks everyone. Morrie, who was suffering by Lou Gehrig's disease, accepted his death and he had appreciated that he could have get through his life before he died.

Mitch, who was always busy, addicted in working. He was one of Morrie's students. He saw Morrie in TV by chance although he forgot him before that time. He could know that Morrie had an illness which name is Lou Gehrig's disease and he began to meet him. Morrie was very week because of the disease, he and Mitch started new lessons which about "Life and Death". They had appointments in every Tuesday. Some of his lectures way impressed me. The lectures were about death, emotions, and forgiveness.

Morrie said that if we believe we're going to die, we can prepare to death. According to this process, we can be more faithful on life. Imagine that a little bird is sitting on your shoulder. Ask your bird that today is the day which I have to die. He said that if we concentrate on the real things, we can notice the world fully. Learning how to live give us that how to die.

Detach is important thing. Because everything is impermanent, we don't have to cling to things. If we are caught by anger, we always live in swamp of anger. Then, detach from it. Don't be clinged by anger. He also went through the fear because of the illness but he could throw away it by detaching. Therefore, I think that detaching is kind of controling one's emotion.

Forgiveness. It's very easy thing but in other way, it's very difficult. Keeping vengeance of stubbornness is not good things. People regret about which they didn't forgive before they die. He also had a miserable memory about forgiveness. It brings peace in both of people who forgive and who is forgiven.

However, it's also important that forgive myself. Usually, we carry very massive sin which we didn't forgive. It can be a fetter of heart. It's about to release ourselves from the fetters.

Morrie had to died with the illness which don't have the cure. If a person know that he must die in a short term, they think that "I want to really die." But Morrie didin't do that. He lived as a professor even in the time of death. He was the very man who really understanded about life and death. Consider about your life stopping your work for a while. You may also live your life like Morrie.