Opinion Paragraph on Tuesdays with Morrie

                        Opinion piece: Tuesdays with Morrie

According to Audrey Hepburn, “The most important thing is to enjoy life-to be happy- it’s all that matters. Mitch Albom’s book, Tuesdays with Morrie, contains many valuable life lessons. Students can gain helpful insight about family, money, and how love goes on from Tuesdays with Morrie.

        On one of their Tuesday visits, Morrie shares excellent advice about family. According to Morris, “Family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money, not fame, not work.” People nowadays spend most of their time working to make money instead of spending some quality time with family. Morrie’s advice might help people understand that family is more important than any other thing. To people who ask Morrie about having children, Morrie said that there’s no experience like having children. Some young couples of today’s generation think having children means they will have more responsibility in their life, less time for working and less freedom to enjoy life, as if kids tie them down. But Morrie thinks that to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, you should have children. Morrie’s advice on family is also very useful for teenagers. Teens go through a lot of problems relating to their social lives, academic success, part time jobs, and relationships. It is important for them to understand that family is always there for them to support through their hard times. To repeat, Morrie offered some really knowledgeable ideas about family.

        On another of their Tuesday visits, Morrie shared his wise thoughts about money. To begin with, Mitch’s coach, Morrie, thinks the best things in life aren’t things (materialistic). For instance, when a person is at the last stage of his life and looks back at how he lived his life, he will remember good memories he had, not things he bought. Morrie also said, “Satisfaction comes from offering others what you have to give: your time, your concern.” People are busy working for money to buy luxury items to satisfy themselves.  Morrie thinks money can’t buy happiness, only other people like family members, friends and relatives can give satisfaction. Similarly, another wise thing he said about money was that status gets you nowhere, only an open heart allows us to float equally between everyone. The world has people who are categorized into different class and status. If we start prioritising things that make us similar and what we all have in common, instead of focusing on what make us different from each other, the world would have less conflict. In summary, Morrie’s ideas about money are quite thoughtful. His advice helps readers to value it just the right way; but not more than people we care about.

        Likewise, Morrie offers meaningful tips about how love goes on; how it keeps people alive even after loved ones die. Morrie, in his ninth Tuesday with Mitch, had said, ‘Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.’ After loved ones are dead, we can still hear their voices in our minds. This is how they live on. Morrie thinks that we should invest our time in building loving relationships with others now, so when we are gone, we can continue to live in their hearts and minds. Many people are worried about being forgotten after they die. But if there are people in our life that we’ve been involved with, in close and intimate ways, we’ll be remembered. In this way, Morrie shared his thoughts on love and how it lives on in others keeping everyone alive forever in the hearts and minds of others.