Reading 'Tuesday with Morrie' - An Old Professor's Last Life Lesson

? I read this book at the end of winter vacation, attracted by the words "the last lesson in the life of my old professor", so I bought this book. The first time I read the book late into the night, excited and unable to sleep; the first time, a book back and forth three times, once in Chinese, the second time in English, the first reading and detailed reading; the first time to write after reading, due to unfamiliarity with the process of the operation will lead to the formation of the manuscript into the water, and to start all over again. To hold down the nameless fire in my heart, I recalled the story in the book, and I thought that maybe it was God's will. ......

? The main character of the story, Prof. Murray Schwartz, is a sociology professor in Boston, USA. He is a dance fanatic. He goes to the church in Harvard Square every Wednesday night for that free dance. No one there knew that he was a famous doctor of sociology, a professor with many years of teaching experience and the author of several scholarly monographs. They all thought he was a crazy old man. However, the message of his death came on the day of the termination of the dance.

? He had ALS (Alzheimer's disease, the same disease suffered by the dead scientist Mr. Stephen Hawking) ALS, like a lit candle, a little bit melting the nerves of the sick. Starting from the legs, he is gradually paralyzed from the bottom up and loses consciousness. The body is as hard as a shell, but the thoughts and ideas that are confined to it are as real and vivid as embers. When the day comes when breathing, the only way to keep in touch with the outside world, is impeded, the patient is going to leave this world. Generally, the process is five years. The doctor told Prof. Murray that he had at most 2 years to live. He knew that it was shorter.

? An old man on the verge of death, an old man who wept at the thought of his present situation, who was saddened at the thought of others injured thousands of miles away, and who was incredibly soft at heart, made a momentous decision - he would face death with courage. He chooses to be studied by others, and he is happy to be a textbook in his own right. He allows the television cameras to record his own ailing and failing face, inadvertently summoning his student, one of his students from sixteen years ago, a journalist and writer who rushes to see his departing teacher. Professor Murray's warmth, selflessness, and wisdom awakened the student's muddled state and warmed his numb, world-weary heart. So, the teacher has been away for sixteen years of students and back to the side of Morley, every Tuesday, the student took the plane to fly seven hundred miles, rushed to the hospital bed to class. An old professor, a student, a final lesson in life, a true story, and then this book, "Tuesdays With Me"(Chinese Edition)

Love was the first word that came to my mind when I read this book. He reiterated over and over again in the final lesson:

Life is like a wrestling match. Which side wins? Love? It will win. Love will always win. Deeply thought! Life is full of games. As my son is about to enter puberty, the daily nagging of my mom and the passive resistance of my son's "mental triumph method" have become the norm. Although in reflection to learn the wisdom of being a mom, but never regret this from love? The advice and companionship. Couples are bound to stumble, but I have been a winner for more than ten years, and I know that this is due to my husband's tolerant favor. There are too many setbacks in the work after the tears and then wipe away the tears and continue to move forward, this persistence stems from the original heart, from the love of the profession. Friends get along with each other, each other inevitably have to suffer when, but seldom care, this is from the experience of suffering, witnessed the growth of blood thicker than water bosom friend love ......

Professor Murray in the last hours of his life he is still learning, he is respectfully experience, in the experience of learning in the experience of the experience of the preparation of the classroom. Experiencing what? Experiencing the coming of death. He had this epiphany. He said that by learning to die, he learned to live. Students asked him what he would do if he had another perfectly healthy day. Murray depicted his perfect day:

I am sure that reading about Professor Murray's perfect day will shock you as a reader as much as it did the author. Why is Professor Murray's perfect day so plain?

? So, I hypothesized, if I had one more year on earth, what would I most like to do? First, I think I would still dress myself up; I would want to live decently, and I would want to leave even more decently. The love of beauty is in my blood. Second, if I still have energy, I want to travel. The first stop is France, Europe. 10 years ago, strolling on the banks of the Thames, facing the English Channel at the end of France, when I was conceited, full of expectations for the future. As the years have passed, I realize that it has become a distant dream for me. I'm going to Canada, where I have the best sisters. Once, our Hunan sisters stormed into Chicago like yesterday, I want to go to Canada to three sisters to relive our sisterhood. I also want to go to Africa, that is a piece of the original ecological, full of exotic flavor of the land. Haha, life is not wild, when to wait! Thirdly, I want to give teachers and children a satisfactory and wonderful class. The podium has always been my favorite place, but also the value of my life. Fourth, if there is still a month's time, I want to say goodbye to the people I love and love me. It is not easy to know each other, and it is even more difficult to keep each other. Over the years have been together with family and friends, one by one goodbye, thank you for appearing in my life. Finally, I want to use my eyes to record everything around me, a grass, a tree, a meat and a meal, a bowl and a plate ......

? When I think about it, I am honest. Kindness, beauty, interest, professional, when the earth is precious; a grass, a tree, a meat and a meal is the life of the intriguing touch. Those who know me say that I am worried, those who do not know me say that I do not want! It turns out that the world's pursuit of all the clouds, in front of life and death are so pale and powerless. In between life and death, between taking and giving, Prof. Murray realized the true meaning of life: to see the simple and the simple, and to be less selfish and less desirous.

Students asked Prof. Murray what the most difficult thing in life is. He said, make peace with life. A calm but powerful conclusion.

The gentleman who was admired on the podium and beloved in life, as his condition deepened, embarrassing scenes followed one after another: couldn't step on the brakes and said goodbye to driving; often tripped and fell, and he bought crutches; had trouble changing his clothes, and hired a family caregiver, and said goodbye to privacy; and was finally reduced to someone else wiping his buttocks ...... to begin with! , he was resistant, but soon he was relieved.

This mindset is enough to dissolve all life tragedies. This kind of acceptance is enough to become the wisest lesson in the course of life. Professor Murray is real, in the face of life's great misfortune, he also had a sinking time, he will be sad for himself early in the morning tears for a while. But he soon got over it. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he chose to make peace with life - frank acceptance, he saved his breath and time to do more meaningful and valuable things, quietly experience death, and share with the world the feeling of life. The world's most flexible, galloping the world's most firm. In the face of life and death, there is no doubt that he is fragile and vulnerable. However, at the end of his life, he used his own way to send out the strongest voice of life. This is a philosophical aesthetic scene!

? Life is not as good as nine out of ten, make peace with life, forgive yourself and accept it openly. Instead of envying others in the inferiority complex of their own shortcomings, it is better to frankly accept the present me, do not miss the past, do not fear the future, live in the present, live a better self; instead of sinking in frustration, it is better to self-improvement, and in the difficulties to hone their own plump wings. ......

? Prof. Murray total ****ed 14 lessons and I took note of the deepest touches of my heart.

? This book has no giants, no gory facts, it flows into the body like a glass of lemonade, washing away the dust from the heart, clarity, and sobriety and self-possession. In this way it is possible, so that not to give up to become give up, so that unhappy to become happy, so that nothing to become all.

Professor Murray's inscription has been written: a lifelong teacher. Low key but very bottom line! After a lifetime of being a teacher, the last lesson, talking about life, was wonderful!

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