Have you watched the movie Tuesday with Morrie, or read the bestselling book on which it is based? In it, a retired professor—Professor Morris Schwartz, “Morrie” to his friends—who knows he is going to die meets with a former student to talk about issues that matter—love, family, forgiveness, life, death, … One of the first things Morrie tells the young Mitch is: “When you know how to die, you know how to live.” “Are you going to talk about dying?” Mitch asks him. Morrie: “No! About living!”
Mitch would later write of these encounters as his professor’s last class. In it, he learnt surprising and precious lessons: “I am lucky,” Morrie says one day. “Lucky?” “Ya, I get time to say my goodbyes. Many people do not get that time.”
Another day, Morrie mentions one of his great regrets—having kept anger in his heart, and not having forgiven a friend. “What a waste!” he exclaimed. “Mitch, forgive everybody everything!”
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Fr Joe Mannath SDB
