Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie is a heart-touching true story about life's greatest lessons. It leaves each reader with an insight on what life is really about. If you are looking for a book which that holds a story of love, friendship, and getting a second chance to learn about life, then this is the perfect book for you. 

 Mitch, the author, heard that is favorite college professor, Morrie, was suffering from a terrible illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also know as Lou Gehrig's disease. This disease causes Morrie's body to slowly shut down, starting from his legs then proceeding up. Mitch, after many years of losing himself in his own life, went searching for Morrie after seeing him in an interview on television. Morrie welcomes Mitch with open arms as if they had never spent 16 years apart. They slowly go through many important things in life. Each time they met is on a Tuesday, just like it was back in college. Every time Mitch visits he brings food and questions/topics that he wishes to discuss. Such topics are the world, family, death, regrets and forgiveness. Morrie may have taught Mitch many things in his classrooms, but through his dying and death, Mitch learned life's greatest lessons.

I greatly enjoyed this story. Morrie's lessons with Mitch taught me a few things as well. It helped me think about "dying well" as Morrie would say. Forgiving others and not feeling sorry for myself. I couldn't believe it ended, I want to start reading it over again just so I can learn everything once more from Morrie. Part of me wishes I could have taken classes with him. He seemed like a professor who be a best friend, or a dad figure like he was to Mitch. His answers to Mitch's questions, questions that some people would deem as being complex, are so simplistic that the reader will almost feel like they should have known the answer all along. The effect of this book will be great on both me and anyone who wishes for the insight on what life should truly be about.

If you find this book to be as amazing as I did then try reading other stories by Mitch Albom. He also wrote The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day, and Have a Little Faith. From what I've heard about these stories is that they will also leave an effect on you similar to Tuesdays with Morrie. If you get a chance to read any of these please leave a comment letting me know your opinion on them and if you think I should read them.