Tuesdays With Morie~~~

Few days ago, i was thinkin of having an entry about the the best seller book-tuesday with morie for my super sunday..unfortunately the x factor thing really got on my nerves and i just cudnt let it pass without posting my thought about that...so here i am now posting about tuesday with morie..i've finished reading the book like a week ago...and it was brilliant..i'll tell u why..but before that lemme give ya a brief synopsis of the book..as i'm really bad in giving synopsis i'll just copy it from the internet and post it here..but i'm gonna make my review of my own thought..

Synopsis

Tuesdays with Morrie is a bestselling non-fiction, by American writer Mitch Albom. It tells the true story of Morrie Schwartz and his relationship with his student, Mitch Albom. The book chronicle the lessons about life that Mitch learns from his professor, who is dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. After five years in hardcover, it was released as a trade paperback in October 2002. It was re-released as a mass-market paperback by Anchor Books in January 2006. According to this edition, 11 million copies of Tuesdays with Morrie are in print worldwide. The book Tuesdays with Morrie brought up many interesting feelings and new ideals on the bereavement of death and dying. This short book shows us how to live life and love people. It also teaches us that each day should be lived to the fullest, regardless of the situation. This true story captures the compassion and wisdom of a man who only knew good in his heart.

Review

1. The thing i love the most about the book is that the fact that its thin..yup..its just 100++ pages..as i'm not a reader and i dont really like spending time reading novel, so i found that the book is appealing in term of thickness..hahah..you just have to spend like 10-15 minutes per day and you'll finish it in a week or so..

2. Eventhough its thin, it has everything that meaningful, relatable and useful as a guide of how would you make full use of you life..its not just a life guide or something on what u shud and shudn;t do in life, it beyonds that..it tells you how to appreciate and see life in various way and to cherish every moment of it before you perish..

3. As i started reading the book, i have the preoccupied thought of the book..my friends who have read the book tells me that its a book of a dying man trying to give a lesson about life..i was like shoudn't be that a dying man thinkin' of his life in the hereafter..??why would he bother to tell people about life..and i was thinkin that the book will be mostly about what he really regret in life and he'll only blabbing everything that he remorsed..so i thought there's nothing really fun to it..but i was wrong

4. I really like the personality of Morie..an old dying man with positive attitude..wow..that's wonderful..how many of us cud do that..His whole life, he devoted them on teaching, trying to to teach people of what life should be like and he did it even after he died..He is a man with troubled childhood experiences..he lost his mom since he's a kid and his father don't really father them(he and his brother) in a good way..he's been ignored by his own father even though they are living under the same roof..He longed to have even a small conversation with his father but he cudn't get it..but as someone with that kind of terrible childhood, he grew up to be a wise man..he is really a person with principle..he don't let people, culture and circumstances shaped him for what he supposed to be..he shaped his own thought and behaviour from what he thinks is right..

5.I love morie's principle in life..it easy..everyone should be able to follow them..he has a strong view of life and all of them really relevant and applicable

6. After i finished reading the book, i felt the surged of emptiness in my heart..i don't know why..it was just so sudden that i felt everything around me seems like empty..i cudn't really describe the feeling of emptiness but it really did happen...i felt empty when i was laughing, i felt empty when i was talking, i felt empty when i was eating, i felt empty when i was doing everything...it happened for like a day or 2...and then i'll try to figure out what had happened to me..and i guess for all this while i really take life for granted..i dont really appreciate everything i have in life...and the emptiness happened because i was trying to get more and more from life but at the same time i never appreciate them..so at that point even when i think i have everything but actually my life is empty..everything is meaningless...until i started to appreciate everything around me and value them as they are supposed to..i remembered what have been covered in usrah before that Allah will asks us about everything that we have in life..so how am i gonna be able to answer that if i don't ever appreciate what i have in my life..so i learned from the book that if we ever want to live the life we have to start to value them accordingly..so from that moment i evaluate my life and what ive done in this whole life..am i happy about that..and what should i do to make it better..

7. Besides, i also feel that the book is really useful especially for medical student..it helps you to feel the feeling of dying..i supposed its a good learning process that we are able to empathize because we'll be meeting lots kind of patients and to be able to accommodate them not only medically but morally is equally important..you will know how Morie faced death bravely and he did not loss his values and principles on life because he's dying..Even he's dying he still live his life to the fullest..i think that is a very good thing that we can instill in our life and in our patients..Mostly people who's sick will loss the interest in living and we as a doctor have to find a way to bring them back to life as living and dying is part of life..dying is a start over for a new life..Morie said in the book that everyone has died before when they are born..they died when they are born..they died from their previous life in the womb..and then they start again a new life..and then they will die and we'll live again in the hereafter..

8.Lastly i just wanna quote few lines from the book that i think really2 good...

a) ' the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let them come in'
b) 'once you learn how to die, you learn how to live'..this reminds me of Rasulullah p.b.u.h hadith about remembering death..you will leave a better life if you remember the death..
c) ' the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. and you have to be strong enough tp say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it' - this is about how we always have to be bounded and tied by the culture which sometimes does not occupy us..what occupy us is the Faith..follow the guide of Faith not the guide of culture.This happened especially in malay comunity

p/s: Now everyone go and read it..if u dont have it, buy it..its an order..hahaha