Tuesday's with Morrie 4/28/16

     Based off of the six Tuesday chapters that I have read in the book Tuesday's With Morrie so far; I think that the topic of death or emotions had the most impact on me. Although the one that most inspired me was The Fourth Tuesday: We Talk About Death. This is because I feel like it had the most aphorisms in and basically just a big message. One of the main aphorisms on pages 82 and 83 were "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." and "If you accept you are going to die, you learn how to live." They both basically have the same meaning: if you accept and learn how to die, then you'll learn how to live.

      The topic of death is important because it is something that is going to happen eventually to everyone. It even says in the book; "Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it." (P.80) Morrie thinks that the best way to prepare for death, is to always be ready for it. I agree with this because everyone thinks that it's not going to be them and they're not going to die until they're old; but the truth is that anyone can die at any given moment.

     In the book, Morrie is called "a religious mutt". This is because he takes different ideas from a variety of religions. This is why he over emphasizes the idea of learning how to die before living. In this chapter and others, Morrie is receiving lots of letters, and he's giving people with similar situations advice and also telling his own life lessons and experiences (to them). This chapter about death is one of the many Tuesday's of lessons.