"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live" this quote is from Tuesdays with Morrie, I've been reading this book for about 6 months now but only recently have I gathered up the steam to push through it turning pages with my index finger like a security guard breaking up a fight.. This book resembles my life like a dog resembles its owner.... The book is about an old man at the end of his life and a young man without much of one...Which is only fitting because i feel like the youngest old man in the history of twenty somethings, but i digress.... Morrie is the older man he is sage-like and stoic, while mitch is stagnant and searching... Many times whenever i read a book or catch a flick i can only relate to one of the main characters and the rest i am very ambivalent towards, i could careless wetether they floursih or flounder... However with this book i relate to both Morrie and Mitch equally which is really odd because both characters are at complete opposite spectrums of their lives... Mitch is attention starved, lonley, afraid, passionless, indifferent, a workaholic while Morrie is faithful, patient, courageous, compassionate... They are like oil and water and yet.....I'am both men smashed together...However though i relate to both i long to connect more with Morrie....
I talked to Rod today after work, and was very encouraged by his words...We talked, we prayed, we laughed, but most of all we were honest... i was honest about my insecurites as Rod was honest with his advice....Talking to Rod made me feel like we were the characters in the book.. Rod of course was Morrie helping me to learn to die so that i can learn to live and I was Mitch afraid but eager to make this wisdom real....
I think I'm finally ready to learn to die so that i can learn to live.....
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