Tuesday with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch lost contact with most of the people he knew in college, including friends and Professor Morrie. After Mitch saw his uncle's death, he began to live a busy and effective life. He gained a master's degree in journalism and became a sports writer. He stopped playing music which was his only dream and hobby. He only wrote about other famous athletes' news, not about his own interests. He started buying things such as a house, cars and stocks. Before he began to visit Morrie, Mitch valued work as the most important thing in his life, because he thought he could control everything through his accomplishments.

After Mitch began to visit Morrie, he started to realize that work is not the most important thing in life. He was surprised with the fresh and unexpected way Morrie thought about death but also life. More than anything Mitch's perspective changed and in some ways, matured. His attitude changed, he started to be more careful about his thinking and actions and also put more value in his family and other relationships. We don't really see exactly how his changed, because it's focused mostly on Morrie, but we can see attitude and action change in Mitch.

In the beginning, Morrie was surprised that the world worked fine without caring much about his impending death. But he soon decided to prove that dying is not synonymous with useless. He began to make closer relationships with the people he loved. He considered death as not just the end of everything. Death was almost like a motivation for him to share his thoughts with more people. Also his viewpoints on things changed. He used to think like the rest of the world in subjects like independence but his weakening body changed his opinion on things like that.

Morrie believes that aging is nothing to be fearful of. He even goes as far as he welcomes aging, because he can learn more as time passes. He believes that it is more positive than negative to understand he's going to die. He also disagrees with the belief that old people are envious of young people. He understands that it is impossible for the old not to envy the young to some degree, but he can find more value in the experiences he obtained. He is happy to be a wise old man, and is satisfied with his experience of once being young himself.

In order to make youth culture more beneficial to the youth than it is today, I believe that some changes should happen to all aspects of a young person's life. The most important thing is to have more venues to experience a wide range of topics. A young person should be able to travel and see other parts of the world, be open to other cultures and viewpoints, learn languages, see plays and different movies and never be resistant to change. And in terms of education, I think it would be beneficial to change the emphasis of education from employment and getting job training to

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