TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
"Little Bird on my Shoulder"
I just finished watching a wonderful dvd called "Tuesdays with Morrie", based on a nonfictional book by Mitch Albon (author of "5 People You Meet in Heaven"). Jack Lemmon (he did a outstanding performance in this movie) plays the retired professor, Morrie. Hank Azaria plays Mitch, his student of 9 years before. Morrie is dying from ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease and the film revolves around his view points on death, dying, and Life. I highly recommend it to everyone.
It has left me with a sense of the need to understand Life while we are here and the harsh reality that there is no deadline with Death. It will come when it comes. If we have truly lived our lives then we can face death as part of it. As seniors, we are more than aware that our days are counting down, that we are reaching the ends of our lives, that perhaps Death may be closer than any of us think. This film made it very clear that none of us knows how long we have on this earth and there is no deadline for our lives to end.
NOW is the time to love and to live. No more "I'll do it next week or month or year" way of thinking. We only have this minute and then it is gone and no where is it written that the next minute will be ours just by the mere fact we expect it to be. We need to think in terms of now and live our lives accordingly. This is not to say that we are not to prepare for the future in any way shape or form. It is merely to say that we must live Life as it comes to us....one minute at a time. Make the most of each minute.
There was a great line in the film, "You must die before you can live" How true!! We must learn to die to the things that hold us down in life....work, committments, the need for approval, the need for self gratification, deadlines, the fear of being loved, the fear of committment, etc......and set aside time to love and live each day as if it is our last. Then we can really be alive.
This blog is not meant to dwell on Death, but rather to encourage Life. Love it, embrace it, live it..........love somebody, hug someone, say a kind word to someone, dance, eat an ice cream cone, sing, enjoy the silence, enjoy your friends and seek those who are not yet your friends. listen to the song in your heart, smile, laugh, encourage those who fall, give to those who reach out to you in desparation, cry for those who need your tears, lend a shoulder and ear when it is needed, etc.
ANSWER TO LAST TRIVIA QUESTION: What does the slang, "ankle-biter" mean? a child
TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: What 1960 movie featured this line “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Did you hear about the 83 year old woman who talked herself out of a speeding ticket by telling the young officer that she had to get there before she forgot where she was going?
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