tuesdays with morrie

The first time I picked up this book was when I was on course in Slack-mont. We were in the last week of course, and we basically wake up to eat and sleep. So I read "Vernoika decides to die" by Paula Coelho as well as "Tuesdays with Morrie" and finished it in 3 days.

"Tuesdays with Morrie" was the first book that ever moved me to tears. I thought I've gained a lot from it. But after re-reading it again, and again. Not the whole book, just sections of it. It felt like I've never read it before. It seemed like something new has appeared.

Probably it didn't make sense to me then. Probably it did, but it didn't resonate. Probably it was something that went "oh, make sense" and forget about it but now, "oh how true. No wonder that time......"



"whenever people ask me about having children or not having children, I never tell them what to do," Morrie said now, looking at a photo of his older son. " I simply say, 'There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibilty for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children."

So you would do it again? I asked.
I glanced ath the photo. Rob was kissing Morrie on the forehead, and Morrie was laughing with his eyes closed.

"Would I do it again?" he said to me, looking surprised. "Mitch, I would not have missed that experience for anything. Even though..."
He swallowed and put the picture in his lap.
"Even though there is a painful price to pay," he said
Because you'll be leaving them.
"Because I'll be leaving them soon."