Tuesdays with Morrie

Friends have recommended this book – Tuesdays with Morrie, an old man, a young man and life’s greatest lesson, to me long time ago but I’ve just finished the book in March. It’s not a book that you can keep it for yourself after reading, you will actually feel that you need to share the story with somebody eagerly . The book that I read is a Chinese translated version and now I’m looking forward to reading the original one.

The story is about the author, Mitch Albom, by chance seeing his professor, Morrie Schwartz’s interview on TV and knowing his favourite professor who he used to call him coach, had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease which eventually lead to death. Then, both of them decided to meet each other every Tuesday to discuss about “Life” before his ended. Each Tuesday, they will have different topics to talk about, for Morrie, he wished to share as much as he could and for Mitch, he wished to write down and tell the world what had he learnt from this life’s greatest lesson.

Topics that they discussed include family, regret, culture, love… It’s not a long story, but every words made you think. I watched the movie too, and these sentences got my attention:

“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

“Love each other or die.”

“What’s wrong with no. 2?”

“We think we don’t deserve love, that if we let it come in, we’ll become soft. But love is the only rational act, let it come in.”

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.”

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

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“There is no experience like having children… if you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”

“Love wins. Love always win.”

“Afraid of aging reflects one’s life haven’t found a meaning.”

Frankly speaking, I am still searching the meaning of LOVE, I’m trying to find out how to define LOVE in a rational way, in a way that my stubborn and square head can understand. Anybody can spare me your understanding about LOVE?