Tuesday Early Morning with Morrie

“Yeah I cry a lot. Maybe you noticed. Do you cry, Mitch?"

"Uh.."

"All this makes you uncomfortable doesn’t it? The crying and touching. I see you look away.''

''I guess I’m just nor really a touchy-feely guy.''

''Yeah it scares you.''

''Doesn’t scare me.''

''Yes it scares you. All this does. Everything we are talking about – death, dying.''

''There is a reason why people don’t talk about these things.''

''Hmm?''

''To spare people’s feelings.''

''To spare people’s feel – I never have understood that. How can you spare someone’s feelings by denying them?''


This was a dialogue taken from the movie version of Tuesdays with Morrie. I love this book. I couldn't find this dialogue in the book. Somehow when I watched the movie, this part stood out like a beacon for me...enough for me to watch it again just to copy it here. I don't know why but perhaps my subconscious mind knows.

You won't believe the number of DVDs that we failed to watch till we came to this one or that how it didn't show up till it suddenly did . It must be the angels at work. I think I am lucky in the sense that the important lessons always seem to come to me at the right time...maybe I just have the ability to sense it..maybe it's my imagination..maybe it's a heightened sense of awareness..I realised that there were bits in the movie that were not in the book and vice versa. I love them both...I think everyone should read Tuesday with Morrie...I have personally bought it for a few people whom I felt will benefit from it..I just don't know when they will ever read it, if they ever do. I sure hope they do...someday.

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