![]() Or maybe we’ll allude to some status we have. Even easier, we might lift our wrists a little and flash a Rolex. Or maybe we’ll tell you about our large house/s and point to the shiny new car/s in our drive. “You notice,” he added, grinning, “there’s nothing in there about a salary.”Īnd yet, when asked about the meaning of our lives, a great many of us will mention just that, our salary. Now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your communityĪround you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and “Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but ![]() It makes sense to begin with that, with what you all likely want to know the most from this blog: the meaning of life. Maybe I took as much away from it as I did because sometimes when I’d read the book, I’d feel as though I was sat there in Mitch’s shoes, listening to Morrie’s words and learning from a dying man the meaning of life. Mitch reminded me of me and maybe that’s why I enjoyed reading this book so much. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz And when, in the final months of the Professor’s life, the living man reconnects with the dying man, (and the living man writes a book on it), here’s everything I learn about life and more specifically, the meaning behind it. So before Morrie dies, Mitch decides to write to him. He realises that it’s been a while since he’s done that…it’s been sixteen years, in fact. The two would sit together and consider the wider meaning and purpose of his life. He was a less hardened version of himself he thinks, and he smiles remembering his Professor, his ‘Coach’. Once the ABC-TV programme ends, Mitch sits on his sofa and reflects on the years since he left University in the Spring of 1979. And when it was time to bow out from the world, he was ready to go with grace. Morrie could, because many years prior, he discovered the meaning of his life. Even fewer are able to look death in it’s face and submit to it. Many people across the world suffer from ALS but very few, with their story, capture the hearts of a nation. What both Mitch, the many other viewers at home (and I, now reading Mitch’s words in his book) learnt, was that Morrie had been diagnosed with the very same condition that debilitated and ended the life of the famous Physicist, Stephen Hawking and that he had just months to live. This segment is available on YouTube, along with Koppel’s final interviews with Morrie and there have been numerous publications and obituaries that have since been written about the man. “Who is Morrie Schwartz, and why by the end of the night, are so many of you going to care about him?”. Mitch sat, a thousand miles away, in his house on the hill – numb – as Koppel asked his audience the following: In 1995, ABC-TV televised a talk-show called ‘Nightline’ hosted by the presenter Ted Koppel, who from behind his desk in Washington now spoke about Morrie. He had no option but to – Morrie was on the television. Having reached great feats of success in his career, Mitch by his mid-30’s was an acclaimed sports-writer and it was actually in a rare moment of down-time from writing that he, for the first time in a long time, remembered his Professor. How many of us can say that we know the meaning of our lives? Our writer, Mitch Albom certainly couldn’t. ![]() It was listed by New York Times as a Non-Fiction Bestseller for four years in a row and was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey on her show ‘SuperSoul Sunday’. ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ is a real-life story based on the life of Morrie Schwartz.
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