Summary of The Thirteenth Tuesday, We Talk about the Perfect Day
In the Thirteenth Tuesday, of tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie and Albom start off by discussing how many fear the sight of death, how they think it is below them. “[I]t is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human, we’re something above nature.” Morrie says that, when we die, unlike plants and animals, we never truly leave. Our love, memories, relationships, still go on. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” Morrie describes how every human yearns for a peace in death, he says that, one we have peace with death, we can have peace in life. Then he says that, even if he could bocome healthy agian, he wouldn’t. He was a different self now. He had already answered the important questions. “That’s the thing you see. Once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can’t turn away from them.” Morrie had already answered the important questions about death. Albom then asks Morrie what his perfect day would be, and he answered with a very simple day, to Albom’s surprise. Before leaving, Morrie asks about Albom’s brother, saying that, although it hurts to not be able to speak to him, it may be for the best. Then Morrie tells Albom a story, which relates to the evident theme of the cycle of life in this story. It is about a wave, who fears crashing on the beach. Then another wave tells him, “[n]o, you don’t understand. You’re not a wave, you’re part of the ocean.”