Summary of The Ninth Tuesday, We talk about how Love Goes on
In the Ninth Tuesdays of tuesdays with Morrie, the discussion topics are love and how it goes on, and today’s fast pace living style. Albom starts off by describing how the stryke with his work becomes increasingly depressing. Morrie tries to contact his brother with little success. He then describes Morrie’s plummeting condition, and his will to keep getting out bed each day. When the conversing between Morrie and Albom begins, they speak of Morrie’s worries about being forgotten once he died, and that he was spending so much time with people so that that wouldn’t happen. The two of them discuss Morrie’s tombstone, Morrie wants it to say “A teacher to the last.” Albom decides that that is a great decision. Albom then speaks of the way Morrie lights up when you converse with him, how he listened the way so few people do anymore. Now a days, people are so good at making small talk, and no real, deep, thought provoking discussions occur. “So many people with far smaller problems are so self absorbed, their eyes glaze over when you talk to them for more than thirty seconds...People haven’t found the meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it.” Albom then describes the last time Morrie saw his father, in a morgue, and how his father died.
There is a tribe called Desana, where they believe that there is only a certain amount of energy in the world, so when one dies, another can be born. Albom describes this as fair in Morrie’s view. This symbolizes his acceptance of his death.
There is a tribe called Desana, where they believe that there is only a certain amount of energy in the world, so when one dies, another can be born. Albom describes this as fair in Morrie’s view. This symbolizes his acceptance of his death.