homework 23

i have been reading more in class and the books gets more deeper into thoughts and specific topics. for example on one tuesday, the guys started talking about death and being spiritual."the things you spend so much time on-all this work you so-might not seem as important. you might have to make room for some more spiritual things" (page 84) morrie was talking how he learned to appreciate thing more since he was dying. he learned how to get rid of all of the unnecessary things in his life and take everyday things and change them into somethin meaningful. for example he was talking about the window he sits in front of. he looks outside that window and observes nature as if it was his first time seeing it.

he was tellin mitch that he has to learn to be more spiritual as well. that maybe if he took more time into doing stuff that he actually wanted to do and really enjoy then maybe he wouldnt feel like he didnt do anything with his life. for example his job. morrie also told him that he was too into material things. that was something that wasnt good.

in one part of the book, mitch was talking about morrie's childhood. he was saying how his mother died and when morrie was little he did not really understand the true meaning of death. just that people go. then his little brother had gotten sick. he could not really understand that either. he felt like the world was on his shoulders and he had to step up and be the "man" of the house. his father remarried and told morrie that he didnt want his mother to ever be spoken about for the sake of his younger brother. morrie was very confused about that. when his father one day took him to his job morrie didnt like it. he said: "he would never do any work that exploited someone else, and he would never allow himself to make money off the sweat of others" (page 78) so for this, he became a teacher. it was a job that was best fit for him. a job that gave him the chance to free express himself about his spiritual beliefes.

i think that overall, our insights or our views come from what he learn and see from childhood. its not what our parents tell us to believe. its the interpretation that we understand best as. fro example morrie didnt really understand how life works. one minute your healthy, then the next your sick. or one day your happy and alive and then the next day, your dead. but as he grew older, he took those situations he grew up with and made his life into something meaningful. i know i have had several people i know die. and my mom tries to sit there and talk about what happened but in the end i take it as something totally different. it changes my life. i try to then make the best out of mine and try not to be as bratty or rude and really enjoy the moments i have because i never know. but at the same time its like if you do that then your kind of expectingthe same thing everyday and all your thinking about is that it could be your last day.