What 'Tuesday' Has Inspired You

 I think that Tuesday which has inspired me the most is the second Tuesday about feeling sorry for yourself. This one especially effective me when Morrie talked about  how he only allowed a little bit of time for self-pity and how lucky he felt that he had enough time to say goodbye to the people you love. This is especially astounding when you think about how he's dying, how he's going to die. And to think that he can lucky woman most people nowadays  moan and groan about the simplest of things and yet he doesn't feel sorry even though he's most likely going to suffocate to death. It makes me feel almost as though most people don't deserve to feel sorry for themselves as much as they do. Don't get me wrong people suffer all the time, but when a man who's dying the way Morrie  is dying says that he's thankful for it it kind of puts everything into perspective.  I think that if people, especially young people, decided to do every day with Morrie does they would feel so much happier in their day-to-day lives. I hope that one day I can look back on everything and think that I lived just as happy life is Morrie seems to believe he is living.

 I think the  message is especially important for people like Mitch, rushing through life and constantly  bemoaning how miserable they are, and yet they don't seem to be very miserable when considering how bad things could be for them.  They especially can't seem to be able to understand how Morrie could be happy in the situation like this. I plan example of this is a page on page 57 with Mitch thinks, "I studied him in his chair, unable to stand, wash,  to put on his pants. Lucky? Did he really say lucky?"  Which clearly shows how shocked he is that Morrie seems to be perfectly content with how his life is. He sees his old professor withering away and most likely expects him to be upset and better, but knowing Morrie  as he had  is it really a surprise to him? Or is it just that he's forgotten things that Morrie taught him?

 Really, with all of the great messages in the last five chapters it was a bit difficult to pinpoint the one that really hit me the most. However re-reading the passage it's actually kind of obvious.  In a time when people seek sympathy for, and get sympathy for, the simplest things it really is important to remember that our lives can always be worse. Besides, even if they do get worse that's no excuse just stick your head in the mud and cry about  how bad everything is. ALS is an extremely severe disease, yet look at Morrie! He seems to be a lot happier than the majority of the people around him. He is the one who most people would assume deserves to be the most upset, but he recognizes that having self-pity won't help him in anyway. So he decides to live his life the best way that he can. And really isn't that something that we should all strive for?