HW - 23 Precis #2

Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom, Published by Doubleday, Sept. 1997
2/3rd of the book: I have grown close to my professor in these past sessions with him. Even with the lost of my job, I have found more time to truly collect myself as a person because I realize there is more to life than a lot of the materialistic things that had taken over my life previously. Morrie is getting sicker, I can see it in him, and I'm sure he is well aware of it, but each passing day I learn a little bit more about myself as I learn more about the progressions in living verses death.

Quotes: "Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too."(p.61) Mitch's difficulty to give in and embrace the surroundings is described by Morrie's perception of Mitch's personal life. In order for him to accept the life he lives in, he must accept and trust the ones around him first.
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." (p.82) Morrie's adventure has shaped to him to truly understand that the fascination in his life, is much more clear since his encounter and now progression in being ill.
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important."(p.91) Morrie's understanding of acknowledging that without his family, dealing with his conditions would be much harder, and that the family that he has provides a sense of security and safety.

Insights/Thoughts: I realized that one of the major themes in this book has become the power of trust and love. Morrie's ability to recognize the love of his family provides more of a "spiritual security"(p.92) since he had become ill and trusting the ones around him, gaining more from them then if he was to not trust them at all. My relation with my Grandparents are similarly presented, because I put just as much as love and interest into them as I would do for Morrie in Mitch's situation. Trusting my Grandparents and believing in them has proven to be more insightful to if I didn't talk to them at all.