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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

January 1, 2010

Tuesdays With Morrie… an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson.  

      

Like Mitch Albom, the author of this biographical account of Morrie Schwartz, I was in that place before when I was still in school, thinking that I had a greater purpose aside from being able to find work after graduation and make my own money.  Then work did come and my idealisms slowly faded into the backckground. Lucky for him, he rediscovered Morrie, the greatest life teacher he ever had. Unlike for me, I still haven’t found my own personal Morrie. Maybe a person like him just comes once ina  lifetime… that one person that can give me clarity and great wisdom about life and how one should live it. Thank God, there is Morrie. And thank God, Mitch Albom was able to chronicle their time together and in the process, bring to the public an insight about a life fully-lived until the very last breath.

 

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