You are struggling to cope with your countless obligations. In fact, you just don’t want to deal with them. Your goal is only the top. The biggest house and the most expensive car.
You have no time left for your friends and your marriage is headed for a quagmire. However, you still have plenty of time ahead of you.
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You will reunite with that fellow student you loved so much, you will renew your relationship with your partner, you will regain faith in your youthful dreams.
But tomorrow. What if today was your last day on earth?
A brave dance towards the end
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Internationally renowned author, journalist, screenwriter, producer of radio & television programs and philanthropist Mitch Albom in the perennial best seller, which has sold 14,000,000 copies, “Every Tuesday with Mori” from Dioptra Publications, tells you with rare mastery the true story of the famous Professor of Sociology Morrie Schwartz, who at the most critical turning point of his life turned his death into a living scientific book, awakening his student spiritually.
The tangle of human destiny unravels in the pages of this classic personal development manual, and you, with tears in your eyes, watch a brave dance towards the end, attuning you to the rhythm of life itself.
The second chance for teacher and student
Really, was there ever someone older than you who had wisdom and patience and understood all your worries when you were young? How would you feel if you had a second chance to see him, to ask him all those big questions that have been haunting you ever since?
In March 1995, 37-year-old cynical sports editor Mitch is suddenly confronted on his screen by his old lover Professor Morrie Swartz, who confesses that he has only a few months left to live. And the memories come back: Graduation. The farewell. “We will see each other soon” the idealistic student had promised 16 years ago.
“Did I trade my dreams for a big paycheck without even realizing it?” the author wonders, finally reconnecting with his mentor for a final course, a final thesis, a scholarly treatise destined to praise love and defeat time.
Every Tuesday. After all, the two of them have always been Tuesday people. No books. With graduation Mori’s funeral. Or perhaps the conquest of immortality?
Love as the only rational act
So are you declaring yourself ready to invade this magical classroom in order to attend a lesson that transforms even the agony of the end into the triumph of existence?
To master the Meaning of Life, part with your armor for a while, allowing yourself to be moved, even to cry. Because love is the only rational act and the most important thing is to offer it generously, but also to receive it with gratitude.
And in the moments when you feel sorry for your situation, grieve, but then focus on all the good things that still exist in your everyday life. In the sun that bathes you with its rays and in the trees that bloom, to welcome spring.
Allow people to become a big hug for you. Because sometimes, if you manage to get those around you to trust you, you need to feel that you can trust them too. Even when you’re in the dark, when you’re falling…
Guilt, death and family
Have you ever wondered what things people feel guilty about before the end? For lost friends? For the secrets they kept buried? For the tenderness they didn’t offer?
In order not to let regrets overwhelm you in the west of your course, stop for a moment, look at your reality and think: “Is this all?” “Is there something missing?”
Then seek out those teachers who will push you toward spiritual evolution, the inspirational mentors who will encourage you to meet the majestic potential that resides within you.
And how about feeling prepared for death at any moment? By learning how to die, you will also learn how to live. You will get rid of the unnecessary and focus on the essentials.
Certainly, do not underestimate the value of the family, since it offers you not only love but also the awareness that there is someone who takes care of you, a kind of “spiritual” security.
And if you wish to feel what it means to have complete responsibility for a person and learn how to love and bond with someone in the deepest way, then dare to have children!
The feelings and fear of old age
Don’t shake your feelings! Instead, turn on the faucet and dive into them without hesitation. Live the experience fully. Even allow fear to enter you. Because only then will you be able to say to yourself, “Okay, it’s fear, there’s no need to let it control me.” And you will move on.
Instead of longing for your younger years, embrace your maturity. Realize that as you grow, you develop. Accept where you are today. After all, a part of you carries all ages: You are the enthusiastic child, the rebellious teenager, the energetic 30-year-old and the settled 60-year-old.
Tune into your dreams. Do what comes from our heart and then you will not feel dissatisfied, you will not be jealous, you will not desire the things of those around you.
Investing in people
At a time when culture and economy push man to look only at himself, baptizing money as his god, you refuse to get lost in the endless pursuit of matter.
Build your own counterculture by investing in people and creating a small community of those you love and who love you. Offer what you can: Your time, your interest, the stories you tell.
Work for the success of your marriage. After all, through him you discover who you are, who your match is. And if you don’t respect your partner, if you can’t talk openly about what’s going on between you, if you don’t have shared values, then your relationship is doomed to come full circle.
Excuse me. Those around you but also yourself. For what you didn’t do and what you should have done. Make peace with death, to make peace with life itself. After all, as long as you love and remember the love you felt, you never really go away. You live on in the hearts of the people you touched!
The thesis that defeated death
Mitch Albom in the alarm clock Every Tuesday with Mori from Dioptra Publications gives us the unique opportunity to become students of an inspiring professor, communicants of a thesis that, introducing us to the art of life, managed to defeat death.
Mori’s philosophy now permeates our very existence. And every time we read these pages we return again to the classroom taught by the short man with the white hair. So, in a way, all of us Tuesday people are forever united.
A book that shifts us spiritually, a reminder that “now” corresponds to the only reality, an ode to acceptance, friendship, dreams, second chances and forgiveness, a realization that the love we’ve given is never lost and a wink to those enlightened mentors who happily turned our course.
