Tuesdays_With_Morrie

Tuesdays With Morrie The Glass is Half Full Most of us take the simple day to day activities in our lives for granted. Being able to eat, wash ourselves, even breath on our own. There is a large number of people who every day find someone else doing these simple tasks for them. Most people have never had to think about someone washing them because their muscles are too weak to lift even a sponge. It might not even be that we don’t have to think about it, but we don’t want to think about it. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He starts to have trouble breathing, walking, and finally talking. Throughout his experience Morrie learns to take what he has and not let it get him down. “Because it’s the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I’m working on it. I’m trying to enjoy the process.” “Enjoy it'”(Mitch) “Yes. After all, I get to be a baby one more time.” (49) Morrie takes a event that would make most of us cringe at the thought and turns morrie, tuesdays, don’t, someone, life, about, think, learn, feel, day, culture, person, people, one, look, before, after, fact, enjoy, certain, almost, way, view, time, society, should, own, need, makes, live, just, it’s, happen, half, getting, experience