A Good Lesson to Learn from A Book

"Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" he says.

Tension of opposites?

"Life is a series of pulls back & 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 should never take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites is like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."

Sounds like a wrestling match, I say.

"A wrestling match", he laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way."

So which sides wins?, I ask.

"Which side wins?"

He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins."

Tuesday's with Morrie - Mitch Albom

I just came back from library @ Orchard. On my way back I went to Borders and read some chapters of Tuesday's with Morrie an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom.

I've heard a lot of people mentioned about it. I just got this opportunity as the book lies there on the shelf just in front of me.

The book tells a true story of a college professor and his student that has reunited after over sixteen years. The student is the Author himself who attended four years of college under the mentorship of his professor, Morrie.

At graduation from college, Mitch had promised his favorite professor and mentor that he would keep in contact on a regular basis. Mitch did not. In fact, Mitch was reunited with Morrie after he saw a news special that Morrie was dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). Mitch began regular visits with Morrie that took place every Tuesday morning. That's where the story starts.

In the Tuesday lessons, Morrie taught Mitch everything from life to death, friends to family, money to aging, and culture to forgiveness. In all of this, Morrie was teaching Mitch those issues of life that are priority and "the real" bottom line.

Morrie died serenely at home, surrounded by his books, notes and hibiscus plant, with his children and wife sleeping in shifts around his bed. Reviewing Morrie's course on the meaning of life, Albom concludes that Morrie was changing until his final goodbye.

Morrie's last message, Albom writes, was: "There is no such thing as 'too late' in life."

Heheh a very interesting book indeed :).