I've been reading Mitch Albom's books, both "Tuesdays With Morrie" & "For One More Day".
Im very inspired by th stories, to do with death and at th same time pulling you back to reality.
Especially the theory of (
Tensions of Opposites*) in tuesdays with morrie,
It says Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing , but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take
anything fr granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubberband. And most of us live in the middle.
Mitch : "So, which side wins?"
Morrie : "Love wins. Love always wins."
I've also learnt from this book, the meaning of life.
For long i've been searching this even at the age of fifteen-to-be. I'm sure most of the others would be asking themselves this too. Some at the edge of death, Suicidal. "So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing what they think is important. This is because they're chasing th wrong things. "
The way you get meaning into your life is to
"Devote yourself to loving others,
Devote yourself to your community around you,
and Devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose & meaning."
- Morrie.
Of course, that may seem vague to most people(including me). However with that in mind, you cld constantly pull yourself back away from th wrong desires and create something that gives you purpose and meaning. (:
Mom sent me one powerpoint thru mail that day, it's titled "The Paradox Of Time" (:
- Today we have bigger houses yet smaller families,
More convenience but less time.
We've more degrees but less common sense,
More knowledge but less Judgement.
We've more experts but more problems, more medicine but less good health.
We spend too recklessly, Laugh too little, Drive too fast, Get too angry too quickly, Stay up too late, Read too little, Watch tv too much And are less considerate.
We've multipled our possessions, but have reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too little and lie too often.
We have learned how to make a living, but not life.
We have added years to life, but not life to years.
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers.
Wider roads, but narrower midpoints.
We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble crossing the road to meet our neighbours.
We have conquered our outer space, but not our inner space.
We have split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We have learned how to rush, but not how to wait.
We have Higher incomes, but lower morale.
More leisure less fun, more kinds of food less nutrition.
Two incomes, more divorces. Nicer houses, broken homes.
I asked myself,
Have we ever realise how we've contradict ourselves?
Morrie said, The most important thing is to know how to Give Love & Let It Come In. (:
I like Morrie's philosophies, His courage and attitude towards death. He wasn't a saint, he did what he could to spread love to others though he was in pain & slowly reaching th edge of life. He said, " Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. " Thanks Morrie, fr that.
I've much more to share, but i think it's enough fr now.
Because Im neither Morrie nor Mitch, Im a reader & still a Teenager in need to find th way back into life from their experience. (:
"And if you're going to have other people trust you,
you must feel that you can trust them, too--
even when you're in the dark.
Even when you're falling."
But hey, I gave you my trust, didn't I?
