Under the soft light of the bedlamp, I went into the world of Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie” to discover an old professor named Morrie who was suffering from a fatal illness, and to experience an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson, from which, I benefited greatly.
In actual life, we are influenced by many widespread ideas; we know them, accept them, and follow them, but seldom think whether they are correct or not. “The more things we have, the better lives we can enjoy. The more, the better.” We repeat it hundreds of times to each other. Once, twice… till it is considered as a gospel truth, we go in for it, and lose our own views. “The more, the better.” With the hope of having “more”, we struggle; we tolerate. As a student, we wish that we would always score the highest in the exams; we wish that we would enter Tsinghua, Harvard; we wish that we would have everything we want, the power, the wealth, etc... Hence, under the pressure from different aspects, we strive hard to make greater progress. Every day, we go about our lives in a very ordered, routine way. We get up early, go to school, come home, study late at night and finally go to bed, day after day, with only minor deviations in the pattern. It is arduous. However, to achieve of the goal of having “More”, we have got to confront this. When we graduate, stepping up to the stage of society, we exert ourselves to earn more, more power and more wealth, avariciously. And after we obtain what we used to thirst for, more things of a higher level come into our mind. As most of us are concerned, all these things that we do are just for one thing, simply, to enjoy a better life; “the more, the better”. But few of us realize the paradox that for such a busy person there should be little time to smell the flowers. So, let us question ourselves: What is so-called “a better life”? Therefore, that is what Professor Morrie Schwartz wanted to admonish us: Stop the global spread of such kind of senses and avoid the inertia of entrenched conceptions. Hold our own beliefs and take our own ways, searching for the real significance of life.
Life does not always go as our wish. But Morrie told that we would be never disappointed or jealous, if we did everything with all our heart and soul. Most of us gradually become used to complaining because we always measure ourselves with secular notions. For example, we students often get anxious about studies. We questioned ourselves time and again that how we could guarantee a bright future. So, we complained because of the failure of tests; we complained because of parents’ scolding; we complained because what we gained was less than what we did. But, as the book told us, if we have tried, when facing the result, even if we failed, we could say: “There is no regret because I’ve tried.” If we have tried, success will surely come when conditions are ripe; if we have tried, we will not always pursue more and better things. Then, we are emancipated, just like Morrie - a dying man with an energetic soul.
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Before his clock stroke, Morrie wanted to give his student the last course, the title of which was “life”. It lasted for 14 weeks with the last one being his funeral. He left over his class, which is spreading continuously. Now it comes to China. I drowned in, and now I am free.
//Ah, finishing the university entrance exam is such a terrific thing! I wanna improve my written skills in this vacation. For I am gonna study in Western Ontario University in Canada next year, but my written English is a headache for me.It is my first try writing a prose.Can you all give some advice? Thanks.