Tuesdays With Morrie
Most of us take the simple day to day activities in our lives for granted. Being able to eat, wash ourselves, even breath on our own. There is a large number of people who every day find someone else doing these simple tasks for them. Most people have never had to think about someone washing them because their muscles are too weak to lift even a sponge. It might not even be that we don’t have to think about it, but we don’t want to think about it. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He starts to have trouble breathing, walking, and finally talking. Throughout his experience Morrie learns to take what he has and not let it get him down. “Because it’s the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I’m working on it. I’m trying to enjoy the process.” “Enjoy it?”(Mitch) “Yes. After all, I get to be a baby one more time.” (49) Morrie takes a event that would make most of us cringe at the thought and turns it into a positive experience. This not only inspires me to look at my life from a different perspective, but also helps me to understand what others are going through.
“Getting to be a baby one more time” as Morrie puts it, might not be a lifetime goal for all of us. But it is definitely something we will all experience someday. If you learn to accept it before the day finally comes you will learn to embrace your self and appreciate the life you have lived. Society puts ideologies in our heads from a young age that it is embarrassing, taboo in a way, to do certain thing s when we reach adulthood. Why should someone helping us go to the bathroom at ninety be any different then someone helping us at nine months. Sure you don’t have the motor skills at nine months but a lot of elderly people loose the same skills that separate a grown man from a baby. Everyone needs to let go off what society has burned in our minds and be comfortable with who they are. After all, we must first learn to die before we can learn to live. Society has a great impact on how we view our actions and the actions of others. It is etched into our minds before we can write out our own names. Don’t chew with your mouth open, sit up straight. Why should we care what perfect strangers think of us? Why don’t we all just walk around in sweat pants and tank tops? Because our culture tells us its not in style. Morrie refers to culture almost as a burden on our shoulders. “Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And we have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.” (35). Women’s hair is a perfect example of how our culture makes us feel a certain way about how we loo
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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