tuesdays with Morrie
"The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. The class met on Tuesdays."
Mitch Albom sums it up well with the first sentence of the book. Tuesdays with Morrie is a class, it's the most important class that any person can take. For the last few months of Morrie Schwartz's life he received a visit every Tuesday from his faithful student Mitch Albom. Each week they would cover a particular subject ranging from family to forgiveness and each week Morrie would provide Mitch with a little more knowledge than he had before. They treated this time together in this 'class' as Mitch's final thesis. It would be his final because Morrie was dying. Morrie had ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) an incurable and brutal disease. Mitch had lost touch with his beloved professor but after seeing him on Nightline he began to visit him as he had promised. This book is a a powerful account of courage and wisdom. It's a loving and moving look at a man who as he is staring inevitable death in the eye somehow remains grateful and content with the situation. This book is full of inspiration and I can't go too far into details because I want others to experience it for themselves. Any summation that I type could not fully incorporate what this book does, what is teaches, or how it makes you feel. Please if you haven't read it I urge you to go out and get a copy. It is a classic, I just had to revisit this book. It is an oldie but a goodie as my mom used to say. 