Tuesday's With Morrie Blog

Prompt: Based on the 6 Tuesdays you have read about in Tuesdays with Morrie, choose which topic (The World, Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, or Emotions) that has had the most impact on you or inspired you. On your blog discuss the importance of this topic with your own opinions, including textual evidence (direct quotes) from the book. 

     In Tuesday's with Morrie, the one topic that inspired me the most was the feeling sorry for yourself lesson for many reasons. First, this inspired me because a lot of people feel sorry for themselves whenever something bad happens. You see it in books, movies, television, and pretty much everything else. When you lose a pet ect, people tend to feel very sorry for themselves. On page 57, Morrie stated, "I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life." This shows me that when something happens, you need to remember that you still have good things in life.

     Another reason is that when I was really sick and found out I had celiac and needed to start a gluten free diet, I felt sorry for myself a lot. I was really sad because I couldn't eat pizza or any of my favorite foods like Oreos ect. Although I got used to it over time, I think that if I read Morrie's aphorism about remembering the good things in life, I would have enjoyed eating gluten free much sooner. Instead of feeling sorry for myself the entire time, I would have been enjoying all the gluten free things I could make, and test, because most of them don't taste so good, but it is still fun nowadays spitting them out because they taste so bad! As you can see, this lesson impacted me because I can personally connect to it.

     In conclusion, the lesson, "feeling sorry for yourself," really impacted me because I was able to look at things in a different way. Like I said earlier, a lot of people feel sorry for themselves all the time, but I learned that instead of feeling that way, we should cherish all the happy things in our lives that we can be involved. I also connected to this story because of my celiac disease, and how at the beginning, I was sad about it, but again, if I thought about it in a Morrie way, I would enjoyed the fact that I can find new foods for myself. Therefore, this lesson impacted ,e because it allowed me to think of things in a different way.