Title : Tuesdays with Morrie
Publisher : Bantam Books
Year : 2005. 12. 27
Vocabulary : 1. be intent on ~에 열중하다
2. curb (인도와 차도 사이의) 연석
3. beam in 스며들다
4. squirm 우물쭈물하다
5. grapple with ~을 해결하려고 노력하다
6. age spots 검버섯
7. gear up gor ~에 대해 준비를 갖추다
8. stillborn bith 사산
9. lilting 경쾌한
10. prop 떠받치다
11. rap 톡톡 두드리다
12. within earshot 불러서 들리는 곳에
13. cremate 화장하다
Summary & Reflection : The social psychology professor Morrie, suddenly contacts the Lou Gheric's disease. He spens the rest of his life suffering from the pain, watching himslf gradually being unable to use each parts of the body. Facing death, professor Morrie finds a whole new different point of view towards the world.
After hearing the news that he will not be able to live longer, professor Morrie decides to spend his last minutes with people who cared for him. He even appeared on a television program for his particular way of spending his last days. This served as the momentum for Mitch incidently cathching his old teacher on television, and decides to go see him after 20 years passed.
Mitch, being one of the students of Morrie's lasst lectures, gains very meaningful 15 tuesdays. Each day he learns about different topics, mostly the ones that anyone would wonder about during their life.
Professor Mitch claims that although he was dying, he was happy since he was surrounded by people who cares for him. Not many would be able to proudly announce that they are beloved by people around them.
The two men discuss about the world, feeling sorry for himself, regrets, death, family, emotions, fear of aging, money, love, and many other things for 14 tuesdays. I especially remember the day they dicussed about death. Death is one of the things that most people fear. Usually people are not ready for this. It was the same for me. Until I read this book, I never had though about how my death would be, when it would vcome, and how will I behave.
In the book, professor Morrie tells avout a little bird on his shoulder. Every morning he asks the bird, 'is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?'
From now on, I shall set one of my life-long goals to answer properly to these questions: otherwise, I might waste tiem chasing meaningless things.
