Tuesdays With Morrie

This week we watched the movie "Tuesdays With Morrie". Mitch is the main character, along with Morrie, and he's just letting his life pass him by. He's just doing whatever everyone else is trying to do. Juggle work and personal work. Morrie on the other hand was busy living. Living life like how he wants to live, happily. Mitch goes to visit his professor, but ends up going every Tuesday. Morrie can see that he's living his life too fast and not taking time to enjoy himself. 

Being part of the American culture makes us fear death and fear love. Why? Because we value our time and money too much. We think that if we don't earn enough money, then we won't be able to live happily. We're afraid to really love someone because we're afraid to receive that love. We think that love has expectations. We're just so afraid of messing up that love. We fear death but we can't control when we'll die. We also say we're not scared of death but are we really not scared? We're just overlooking it. We just give the thought of death a brief second before moving on to something else. We haven't been in that situation ourselves so we can't really empathize as much. We use defense mechanisms.

Morrie said that he's not dying but living. I think in a situation like his, you really start to value what your life's meaning was about. You start to reflect how you lived your life. I think that we really do start living when we grow older because there's not much to lose. We've already experienced enough and seen enough. We start observing others lives and how they're living. 

I always try to distract myself from facing something because I'm too afraid to face it. It could be the smallest thing, but I still ignore it. I sometimes try to avoid people in the hallway just to avoid the awkward "Hey!" or "Hi!". This seems silly but we do that all the time. Sometimes the past teachers we've had. I say that I'll keep in touch with someone but I don't because I want to avoid the awkward catching up. We always use something to ignore others. Excuses.