24/10/2026
This is one of my favourite books & author. The movie with Jack Lemmon & Hank Azaria is well worth the watch as well.
There is currently a copy of Tuesdays With Morrie in the street library. ❤️
Happy reading 📚
I didn't expect to cry on page twelve. I had heard about this book for years, seen it on shelves, heard it recommended, known it was beloved. But I had never read it. I assumed it would be sentimental in the way that popular books about dying often are. Sweet. Uplifting. Maybe a little saccharine.
I was wrong. It's not saccharine. It's honest. And it broke me open in a way I didn't see coming.
The story is simple. Mitch Albom was a college student who adored his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. They were close in a way that student-teacher relationships rarely are. Morrie saw something in Mitch. He nurtured it. And then Mitch graduated, moved away, and did what so many of us do, he lost touch. He got busy. He built a career. He forgot about the person who had once meant everything to him.
Sixteen years later, Mitch sees Morrie on television. Nightline. Ted Koppel. Morrie is dying of ALS, and he's talking about it, not with fear, but with wisdom. With humor. With a kind of grace that Mitch had forgotten was possible. Mitch reaches out. He visits. And what begins as a single reunion becomes a weekly ritual, every Tuesday, just like in college. Only this time, the subject is not sociology. It's life. Death. Love. Forgiveness. What matters and what doesn't.
The book is the record of those Tuesdays. It's short. It's simple. It's one of the most profound things I've ever read.
5 Lessons That Stayed With Me:
1. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
This is Morrie's central teaching. It sounds paradoxical, even morbid. But what he means is that death is the great clarifier. When you accept that your time is limited, you stop wasting it on things that don't matter. You stop chasing status. You stop holding grudges. You stop pretending. You start loving. You start showing up. You start living.
2. Love is the only thing that matters.
Morrie doesn't say this in a sentimental way. He says it as a fact. When he looks back on his life, the things he treasures are not his achievements, his awards, his accolades. They're the people he loved and the people who loved him. That's it. That's the whole list. Everything else is noise.
3. You have to let love in.
It's not enough to give love. Morrie argues that many of us are good at loving others, but terrible at receiving love. We deflect compliments. We push people away. We don't believe we deserve the care we offer so freely. Morrie says this is a mistake. You have to open yourself to love. You have to let people in. You have to believe you're worthy of the same kindness you give.
4. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
Morrie doesn't have time for grudges. He doesn't have time for regret. He's dying, and he knows it, and he refuses to spend his remaining days carrying the weight of old wounds. He forgives. He asks for forgiveness. He makes peace. And he urges Mitch to do the same, not later, not when it's convenient, but now. Because later might never come.
5. Aging is not decline. It's growth.
Morrie refuses to romanticize youth. He doesn't wish he were young again. He says that would be a waste, a denial of everything he's learned, everything he's become. Aging, he argues, is not about losing your vitality. It's about gaining wisdom. It's about becoming more fully yourself. And that's something to embrace, not fear.
Tuesdays with Morrie is not a complicated book. It's not a clever book. It's not a book that will impress anyone with its intellectual sophistication. It's a book that will make you cry on page twelve and think about your life for years afterward. It's a book about a dying man and a young man and the lessons they learned together. It's a book about what matters. And it's a book that might just change yours.
BOOK: https://link.amazon/B07ox1xKa
