Tuesday’s With Professor Morrie

The story begins with Mitch Albom meeting briefly with Morrie Schwartz in his graduation  college ceremony.Mitch is a young guy, just beginning to start his adulthood life and he tells us that Morrie  is his favorite professor.The day begin by Morrie happily enjoying dancing with other students and young people at Harvard city square at an event called “Dance free” and quickly changing the playing song into his own favorite tango.The following day Morrie starts his car for lecturer in  the university ,suddenly his leg muscles fail to work and the  car reverses back , to hit a basketball court fence .Morrie discovers he has contracted ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.It destroys his muscles ,making him weaker and weaker until his lung could no longer support him.He and his wife begin to prepare for this new life .  How ?   Morrie however refuses to throw the towel . Instead ,he starts opening up his home to visitors ,reaching out to everyone he knows.

Meanwhile,Mitch has been living a mediocre life.To be frank  , by mediocre It doesn’t mean that he hasn’t gone to college (he has) ,nor that he hasn’t been working really hard and making  tons of money (because he’s done both of these things as well)No,it means  that he isn’t happy .Instead ,it means he’s too much of a workaholic that he doesn’t even have time for his wife. Luckily for Mitch he comes across his old professor being interviewed by Nightline on  ABC.

Mitch visits Morrie on the first of many Tuesdays.He’s a bit  taken aback by  how frail Morrie is and fears he might have made a wrong decision in visiting him ,but no sooner the fear fades .They begin to have chat for  hours ,as if time hasn’t passed between them , and Morrie is able to convince him to come back and visit the next week .The topic for the next Tuesday  is self-pity.Morrie ,who has every reason to feel sorry for himself,tells Mitch that he consciously imposes “a daily limit on self-pity,” a few tearful minutes to mourn before focusing on the good things in his life and carrying on with his day.Mitch learns to lift Morrie from his wheelchair to his recliner, and as he hold his mentor’s wasted body,he knows that for Morrie, time is truly running out.This continues for several Tuesday’s ,as Morrie speaks of self-created values,loving others and learning to accept death.With each lesson,Morrie becomes increasingly sick; during their last meeting ,Morrie was bed ridden and near death.As he and Mitch hugged for one last time,Morrie notices Mitch is finally crying .

Morrie dies as short time after.At his funeral Mitch tries having a conversation with Morrie,as he had wanted Mitch feels a certain naturalness and comfort to this conversation and realizes that it happens to be Tuesday .

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