Morrie And I

Morrie And I
1722 Hwang Hyun-ji
Title : Tuesdays with Morrie
Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher & Year : Anchor Books & 1997
Vocabularies :
discard - to get rid of something because you no longer want it or need it
wither - to become very weak
exhale - to breathe out the air that is in your lungs
crawl - to move forward on your hands and knees
embrace - to hug someone usually in order to show your love or affection for them
anchor - to fix something to prevent it moving from that place
grin - a broad smile
glance - to look at something very quickly and then look away again immediately
breeze - a gentle wind
garage - a building in which you keep a car
Reflection : Today, I read a book called Tuesdays With Morrie because reading this book is an assignment of English in school. I didn't expect about it because the title wasn't attracting to me. So I started to read it with very low expectancy. However it was really impressive and I felt a lump in my throat.
This book is written about Morrie and Mitch. Morrie was a professor of an university and Mitch was a student of him. Because they were close to each other, they promise to keep in touch with in graduation ceremony. However Mitch wasn't as good as his words, not only keeping in touch but also living not for money, fame and something like that. Mitch succeeded in his life as a famous sports journalist forgetting his real dreams. Then one day in 16 years, Mitch happened to watch Morrie's interview in Nightline , a popular interviewing program. After watching that, Mitch eventually found him and realized that himself had lived the way far from his dreams. And from then, Morrie's last lecture about life, death, love, forgiveness, repentance, ages, marriage and something like that started only for Mitch on tuesdays. In fact, Morrie lived a time limited-life so he personally showed his lecture about life and death to Mitch. The lecture he personally showed have everybody learn the mind which we love and sympathize someone instead of meaningless things the world says as important things. Especially I can't forget the words he said " It is the most important thing in life to learn the way share the love and accept the love. ". As time passed, Mitch who live busy life as a broadcaster and a journalist realized what's the most momentous thing in life. Also I perceived what I should get rid of and what I should pursue as well as Mitch. Also Morrie told us to escape from our culture which make us envy and be jealous of others. Our culture make us pursue luxury goods but Morrie told us to judge and act with our own values. Eventually Morrie passed away on 14th Tuesday and then the follower wrote a paper of which learned during lectures. At this moment, I didn't cry unlike original me because I took lessons from Morrie that death isn't sad but positive thing and right behavior to death is on the extension of right behavior to life.
After reading this book, I took lessons a lot. Most of all, his teachings let me be strong on every moment alive. I determined I will do my best in every moment. Also he became a respectable teacher of my own mind.