Tuesdays with Morrie -- Day 2

Morrie's words

1. ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.

2. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time and the reason to do that.

3. I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.

4. "We will hold hands," Morrie said, "And there'll be a lot of love passing between us Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that."

5. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Words from Celebrities

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.

--Henry Adams

Love is my rational act.

-- Lovine

What did Mitch see?

1. Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days.

2. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.

3. He was intent on proving that the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless".

4. He tells me I need to be "fully human".

5. He made another vow that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that exploited someone else, and he would never allow himself to make money off the sweat of others.

Ask yourself?

1. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

2. What will become of you?

Words

age spots 老年斑

squirm （因紧张、尴尬或疼痛）动来动去，来回扭动

polio 小儿麻痹症

My Thoughts 

What will I do if I feel pity about myself? Maybe I will regret it, cry and hope for another chance to accomplish the goal I have set. But time goes by as it does without any hesitation. What I am regretting now is the waste of another possible chance. This may form a virus circle.