Tuesday With Morrie

 Sharing By Jih Yang and Yong Jie

Topics of the 14 classes with Morrie:

1. World

2. Feeling Sorry for Yourself

3. Regrets

4. Death

5. Family

6. Emotions

7. Fear of Aging

8. Money

9. How Love Goes On

10.   Marriage

11.    Our Culture

12.    Forgiveness

13.    The Perfect Day

14.    Say Good-bye

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 On Reading :

•Encountering a good book is like encountering a great teacher. Reading is a privilege only human beings are endowed with; no other living creature on this planet has the same capacity. Through reading, we are able to come into contact with hundreds and thousands of lives other than our own, and to commune with sages and philosophers who lived as long as two millennia ago.

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•Mr Toda said, “Youth, make time to read and think seriously about things!”

It’s a matter of setting your mind to it. Those who claim they have no time haven’t really tried. If the desire to read is there, there is no way you can’t find ten or twenty minutes to do so.

You don’t have to be sitting on a desk to read. An old saying goes that there are three places suitable for writers to mull over their ideas: in bed, on horseback and in the bathroom. The same can be said about reading if we substitute the train today for horseback.

Friday 9th Nov – 8pm ( Tuesday With Morrie ) – Jih Yang and Yongjie

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” Morrie said to his student. “Our relationship will live on, but it will be different. Come to visit me at my grave. This time, you talk, I’ll listen.” Morrie and Mitch have a very unique relationship. Morrie is Mitch’s professor in college and his life mentor near the end of his life. An unlikely relationship, friendship and an education in life that brings the author and the readers to understanding life and the world around us. Reading the book is just like having an afternoon tea with your dear old grandfather. The conversation is relaxing, calming and uplifting.  As we read, we should ponder. What is life all about and should we be constantly embroiled with thing without or we should find within ourselves?  

Come down to the Reading Club this second Friday of November (9 November) and share with us your view on this book and together we embark on a lesson in life that may even astonish yourself.