Tuesdays with Morrie

Book: Tuesdays with Morrie

Author: Mitch Albom

Mode: Kindle

Reading: Recommended, Re-reading: Recommended

This book had been sitting in my Kindle for quite some time now, possibly one of the recommendations which came along in either a book or a video somewhere. And I am glad I picked it up to read for the first time in the Christmas week of 2023 when office was unofficially closed and I was in Bhagalpur with my parents.

This is a book about the last few months of the life of a teacher who got reconnected with his student after 16 years. There are majorly lessons and wisdom on life along with what old age has in store.

• What is actually important in life? Gives an interesting segue into what is not?
• If it were your last day and you could do anything you want, what would you do?
• Death - What next? Life - What more?
• Regrets and the importance of forgiving / seeking forgiveness and living or dying in peace?
• The acceptance of dependency with disease and old age and the vigour to still be positive.
• Helping and growing the community we are a part of. Also, not getting away rather being in our society and working on improving the things which are not great as every society has its flaws.
• Being connected with people who you value, having that person (living or dead) to go to with all of our questions about life - and its going to be a lot.

The set up of this book was pretty interesting and so was the affection shown by the teacher for his old student along with the willingness to have sessions while literally being on the death bed. This also bring up the idea that sometimes some people just click and it goes a long way towards shaping the life of people (student).

I will read this book again someday, ideally a hard copy.

Planning to switch to full time paper based reading soon with only resorting to Kindle when on a long trip.