so, I have just finished reading this.
Tuesdays With Morrie
(Mitch Albom, 2002)
it was completely based on a true story, about Mitch's relationship with Morris Schwartz or Morrie, his sociology lecturer at university. as student and teacher, they were quite close to each other. Mitch, just another ordinary grown-up boy found Morrie so inspiring. he was that type of lecturer who didn't really emphasize on academical achievements. his lesson was more about life itself. he saw everything in his very own way : optimistic, not biased by the culture and always believed in the power of love. sounds cliché, yet Morrie didn't think so. he kept on inspiring and changing people life, right until his last breath.
after his graduation, Mitch never saw Morrie again nor heard anything about him until 16 years later. he was randomly changing TV channels from one to another when he suddenly saw Morrie appearing on screen. apparently he was suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a severe disease that attacks neurological system. soon he would lose all his neural functions, and so far there was no cure for this ALS.
most people would grieve to death until the death itself comes to them. yet Morrie remained optimistic, grateful and inspiring, though he lost one by one part of his body each day. with his remaining physical effort, he popped up with one idea : making his last thesis with Mitch, which mostly talked about life. their talk included various topics e.g. love, marriage, forgiveness, culture, and some other more. those were pretty simple, but those things Morrie spoke were the things that we forgot most often.
Morrie & Mitch
picture taken from Google
first of all I chose to bought this one (after having quite unimportant dilemma while choosing between Nicholas Sparks, Paulo Coelho, Cecelia Ahern, Khaled Hosseini, etc) because I'd already read Five People You Met In Heaven (also by Mitch Albom). I've read it for I-don't-know-how-many-times now, but I never get bored of it. it's very inspiring. that was why I decided to give another Mitch's piece another try.
and I don't regret choosing it at the first place (yes of course. why do I bother to write this long about the book if I don't even like it?). this book is amazing. good for those people who are already tired with life and all endless stress and routines. for those who've recently been quite desperate. just read this, you'll get something, depends on your own reception of course.
