Tuesdays with Morrie!

Who r your mentors in life? Who taught u how to cope with life's challenges? Where did you find answers to life's tough questions on love, life, death, forgiveness, regret, living or have u never asked yourself or anyone else? I feel there will come a time where we all will seek answers to these perplexions of life.

I seek these answers from different sources - from books on parapschology - Where Science and Magic Meet (Dr. Serena Roney-Dougal) to What Buddhists Believe (Venerable Dr. K. Sri Dhammanada) to The Meaning of Life (Viktor Frankl, survivor of Nazi concentration camp), etc. besides asking my parents, friends, and even strangers. I filter stuff from the traditional media & net and through observations of life events & reactions of others. Sometimes, even make some social experiments.

Why bother? I wish not to follow blindly in whatever faith for I believe we are given a mind & brain so that we can make informed choices and live our life independently. We can look to the written & published books or the holy book or ask our maker/creater/God/Universe/our parents for answers -- but in the end it's us who will be making the choice of what to follow/ what to believe or not. We need to listen to our inner voice.

After much seeking & running around the maze of life, I have come to the conclusion that - often, there's no truly a right or wrong choice. It's just whether we can live with or are willing to accept the consequences of that choice. Everything one does has consequences. Even when u walk on the grass, your very step damages grass under your feet & probably kill some insects! The positive side is that it completes the circle of life. Dead grass & insects will enrich the soil and let others grow.


I watched Tuesdays with Morrie on TV yesterday and it was a beautiful, real-life story of the author of the book of the same title, Mitch Albom. .

In his website this is the synopsis of the story:

"Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.


For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live.

Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. Now the best-selling memoir of all time, Tuesdays with Morrie began as a modest labor of love to help pay some of Schwartz’s medical bulls. Today, the book has sold more than 14 million copies in more than 50 editions around the world."

AT THE END OF THE DAY, we all need some motivation or comforting words. Do grab the book & read or watch the movie. The website has all the necessary - book, movie, synopsis & reviews in different languages and a handsome picture of the author :)