Yes, I have heard about the book,saw it on the Best Sellers list and all that. But I never did feast my eyes on the book until now,compliments of the PJ Community Library.
It is such a simple book and backgrounds a one-on-one lecture between a Sociology professor, Morrie Swartz and a sports journalist, Mitch Albom. Easy reading, deep thoughts.
The lessons in this book encompasses acceptance, emotion, communication, love, values, family, openness, and happiness. Morrie tells Albom the importance to forging a private culture to withstand the more popular culture of the times which dictates our behaviour and cause us unimagined sufferings as we try to live up with it. Morrie oftentimes quoted his favorite poet, W. H. Auden, with "love each other or perish". As Morrie reaches the advanced stage of Lou Gherig's disease, he described "detaching himself from experience" as the way out of all our sufferings.
Morrie, in his dying moments, analogises death to be akin to a wave crashing into the shore and matter-of-factly says "When you're in bed, you're dead"- his final surrender.Great book. I will write the important values in greater detail in another posting.
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