Question 1. Morrie's love for music:
Morrie's love for music is very intense, even before he got sick. It now had moved him to tears. He would listen to opera at night and it would make him relaxed and he is taken with the magnificent voices. Morrie would had always been taken with simple pleasures, singing, dancing, and laughing. This connects to what Morrie is trying to teach Mitch about money because now that he is taken with music and now materials have no significance. He is trying to teach Mitch that materials are nothing compared to love, tenderness, compassion, and gentleness. Those things have significance. No one in this world can put a price on that. Question 3. Morrie's view on materialism... Morrie believes that people these days are wanting to buy their happiness with materials. No one knows what is really important anymore because we are so caught up with our lives thinking about what we want, not what we need. Materials have no significance in Morrie's eyes, neither do they have significance in mine. Question 7. Does one have to die to be reborn... In my view of this meaningful quote, one has to die to be reborn. When you are alive, you don't understand how much meaning there is to your life. When you die, you are reborn in a way that you understand why you did things in your life that had a lot of meaning, but you didn't realize it. You also start a new life in Heaven with God who will help you understand how much you are important.
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Morrie’s thoughts on aging are that when you get older you are just like a child again. Someone always has to bathe you, lift you, and wipe you. He was starting to enjoy his dependency because there is always a person to rub cream on him or wipe his brows. Morrie didn’t get enough of what other kids got in their childhood. When our mothers would hold us, rock us, and stroke our heads. He is experiencing what it is like now that he is old and all grown up.
Mitch had asked Morrie if he was ever afraid of growing old. Morrie’s thoughts were that he embraces aging. He explained to Morrie that as you grow, you learn more. If you stay at a young age, you will always be as ignorant as you were at that age. Aging is growth and it is not just the negative that you are going to die. It is the positive that you will understand fully that you are going to die. You will live a much better life because of it. “Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.” –Morrie pg. 118-119 My thoughts on aging are that you should never fear early in your life about aging. You should be happy to live a full life and experience what is like as you get older. You will learn the meaning of your life when you are old. I am excited to see what is like to understand the meaning of my life. Never fear aging, embrace it. Caption: In the 60's, hippies were created. In this picture they are protesting about how there should be love and peace, not war.
"Do you believe in reincarnation I ask? Perhaps. What would you come back as? If I had my choice, a gazelle. A gazelle? Yes. So graceful. So graceful. So fast. A gazelle? Morrie similes at me. You think that's strange? I study his shrunken frame, the loose clothes, the sock-wrapped feet that rest stiffly on foam rubber cushions, unable to move, like a prisoner in leg irons. I picture a gazelle racing across the desert. No, I say. I don't think that's strange at all."
I think that this means that Morrie wants to be free and he wants to do everything other people can do. Morrie wants to be so graceful and he wants nothing to worry about. If I were to come back as something, I would be a dog. Dogs are loyal, lovable, happy, and a man's best friend. I am all those things and I would like to embrace that part of me more. "Where life begins and love never ends." -Unknown... My family is so important to me in so many ways. My family is caring, loving, accepting, appreciative, and quite generous. I love them for who they are as individuals and we accept each other for what we want to accomplish or become. My mom, dad, and brother help me through ups and downs and we work everything out together like all families should. We also learn from each other when we might not even realize it. We make lots of memories that will last a lifetime and I cherish every moment we have together. I realize how important my family is everyday because you never know what is going to happen.
I agree with Morrie's Aphorism and it is very true. I agree because when you are alive, you don't realize how hard it is to go through painful situations that are life threatening all the time. Once you die you learn from your mistakes and you realize what you should have done. Also I agree because people don't live their lives to the fullest and they dwell on what is going to happen in the future. In these days we should cherish the days we alive and not dwell on the day we are no longer going to be. I go by that everyday of my life and I savor every minute I am alive.
"A teacher affects eternity; he never tell where his influence stops."~Henry Adams This quote means a lot to me in many different ways. It is meaningful because students don't realize what their teacher did for them and what influence they had on them until they are older. It means that a teacher's lessons influence your life forever. Teachers teach you things you can't learn from anyone else. They teach these lessons about life and you may not realize how much of an impact they have on you. Morrie teaches his students, especially Mitch, about regrets, death, the world, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, society, compassion, forgiveness, and most importantly a meaningful life. When I am older I hope to become a teacher who has a vast effect on my students just like Morrie did.
In this chapter,"The Second Tuesday We Talk about Feeling Bad About Yourself", Mitch is taking a break from stressing himself out about work. He looked forward to these visits on Tuesdays with Morrie. On this visit, Mitch and Morrie talked about one of Morrie's favorite subjects, compassion and why the society had such a shortage of it. Mitch asked Morrie is he ever felt bad for himself. He said "Sometimes, in the mornings. That's when I mourn . I feel around my body , I move my fingers and my hands-whenever I can still move-and I mourn what I have lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning." He tells us that you can't feel bad for yourself too long. Mitch thought about all the people he felt bad for. He also helped Morrie get in his chair, but when he did it he knew time was running out, and he knew exactly what to do. In this chapter, I realized that Morrie had a point. Feeling bad about yourself is not something that you should spend time doing. You should help others that don't have what you do, what you haven't lost yet.
Who I really feel for in this world are the soldiers of America. They fight for our country while being away from their families and away from everything that stands for home. Trying to be brave, having faith, and strength are the most difficult vertues to maintain while encountering both physical, emotional, and mental obstacles that come their way. The lives of these soldiers and what they encounter is not as easy as most people think. |