Tuesdays with Morrie -- Week 10

Hi, everyone:) I went to Kitano Tenmangu Shrine to see the autumn leaves last Sunday. They were very beautiful! (There is the picture below↓) I prefer Japanese maple to cherry blossom because the maple is so tasteful! How about you??:D














The Ninth Tuesday: We Talk About How Love Goes On

The leaves had begun to change color. Still, every morning Morrie instead on being lifted from his bed and wheeled to his study, deposited there among his books and papers and the hibiscus plant on the windowsill. In typical fashion, he found something philosophical in this.

Morrie said, "Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone." He also said, "Part of the problem, Mitch, is that everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running."


The Tenth Tuesday: We Talk About Marriage

Mitch brought his wife to meet Morrie. She had never met him. She was a professional singer, so Morrie asked her to sing something for him. When she finished, Morrie opened his eyes and tears rolled down his cheeks. In all the years Mitch has listened to his wife sing, he never heard her the way Mitch did at that moment.

"Marriage. Almost everyone I knew had a problem with it. Some had problems getting into it, some had problems getting out. Why do we have such problems?" Mitch asked Morrie about this. 

"You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't," Morrie said. "And there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage. If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you. you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values is your belief in the importance of your marriage."

Morrie sniffed, then closed his eyes for a moment. "Personally," he sighed, his eyes still closed, "I think marriage is a very important thing to do, and you're missing a hell of a lot if you don't try it." He ended the subject by quoting the poem he believed in like a prayer: "Love each other or perish."


There are the three main choice in life: Going to university, Getting a job and Marriage. I learned that from a lecture. I want to get married in the near future, so Morrie's words are good for me.