Anyway for the purpose of this post I'm going to write as though 'm halfway through.
The novel is basically about a man named Morrie who is diagnosed with ALS and basically has a year to prepare himself for death. The author, Mitch, is reflecting on his relationship with his old teacher Morrie, who in his last year was able to give Morrie all his secrets to life on subjects such as death, family, ect.
This book is full of highlightable, fold the page to go back to kind of quotes. Below are some of my favorite:
Page 64: "The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until your about to die. We're so wrapped up in egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks- we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"
Pg 83: "Most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, ding thing we automatically think we have to do."
pg 103: "Learn to detatch. " He opened his eyes. He exhaled. "You know what Buddhists say? Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent."
That's all for now! Continue to my final one of this book to see more!
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