Morrie tells us the value of living, of being. He tells us the import!ance of having a good relationship with loved ones, with friends and family. He values the time people spend doing good to each other. Morrie says that these are the things that we should value more in our lives. Money can get us many things and bring us a lot of success and fortune, but it will never buy us happiness. For happiness can exist only between people, between one and the rest of the people out there. And we can be happy if we just change our attitude and focus on what is most valuable in life.
Most of us do not have a long discussion over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life and death, as Mitch Albom tells us. It goes even further for me, because I have never discussed with anybody else about the meaning of death in anyway. I never thought about it in any depth. Morrie told Mitch that, when he learns how to die, he will learn how to live. And, after thinking for a while about this, I have come to realize how right he is in saying this. Although I have never thought seriously about my own death, I have imagined the death of other people. I lived my life as if nothing bad could ever happen to me. I put my seatbelt on whenever I went inside my car, not because I thought it is possible I will get into an accident, but more out of habit. But, Morrie is right when he says that death can happen anywhere at any time and that we should be prepared for it every morning we get up. I did what he said by meditating on all the good things of life and how all these things can disappear at any moment. As a result, I felt my life to be more valuable. Every little moment became more enriching and precious to me. Once I realized that there is a limit to life, life was more precious to me, and I felt the need to do more, to take in all of life as much as possible in my short stay on earth.
