Dealing With Death inspired by Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie
In the midst of undergoing a serious life-altering incident, one often experiences the feeling of a paradigm shift. It is amazing to see how our perspectives of the world shift when forced to reflect on what is truly important. Such is the way with death. Being near death causes a sharp realization of what is truly important in life--love of family and friends, faith in God, and making the world a better place to live in--and enables one to not merely accept this, but apply it to their life as well. All those typical, average daily worries and concerns about homework, professional careers, food, sleep, personal grooming, etc., while important and necessary in everyday life must seem unbelievably miniscule when the death has wiped ones eyes clear and the big picture of life has come into focus. If an individual suddenly becomes aware that their time on earth is coming to a close or is suddenly thrust into a meaningful relationship with someone trying to deal with such a phenomenon, as is the case in Tuesdays With Morrie, a contemporary book written by the popular sports journalist Mitch Albom, serious personal change can occur as a result. In fact, a person is only able to reach such a tangible state of enlightenment and und
Just as Mitch journeyed back to Morrie in the hopes of providing some type of support for his tragic situation and ended up gaining the knowledge of an enlightened man on his deathbed, we as a society need to view visiting the old and dying not as a pathetic gesture of pity, but instead as an opportunity to learn from their collective experience. The bulk of society, and especially people who stand in positions capable of establishing great change, like politicians and the wealthy, need to receive the same insight into life that Morrie and others who have experienced a waking up to death are given. Those who reach this enlightened state of understanding must be willing to teach their new philosophies before it is too late and everyone else needs to be willing to listen. The extreme change and understanding that is reached through the realization of death is much too valuable of an experience to not be shared with all. Just imagine how much of a better place our world would be if everyone could go through the transformation that Morrie and Mitch took on. erstanding of the world around them in those last moments before death. While it is true that people change every day, and at the same time life goes on seemingly as normal as ever despite this fact, no transformation of self is as radical and pervasive as that which results from looking deep into the eye of the storm that is death. People cannot ever fully understand the meaning of life on this earth, nor can those who have never had a close encounter with death truly explain its significance. "Learn how to die, and you learn how to live" is something that Morrie always said and it cannot be expressed in a better way (83). However, there is no doubt that within the context of realizing that one's life will end soon one gains the closest appreciation to the truth about the mystery of life. Given this truth it would be only natural for one to question its real importance, for it may seem to be merely a useless adventure in self examination if this knowledge cannot be applied to making the world a better place seeing as it may only be found on the very edge of a lifetime. But this is where the real lesson co
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Approximate Word count = 1471
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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