This is a book about people, about friendship, about living and about dying. Morrie Schwartz, one of those big hearted human beings who devote their lives to teaching, is diagnosed with Lou Gherig's disease. In a short span of time, he progressively loses control over his body and, as he gets closer to his final breath, he shows everybody around him there is more to life than most people realize.
This is the account of the last weeks in the life of a wonderful man written by one of his former students. Mitch Albom, an accomplished sports writer, discovers that his beloved professor is wasting away and turns his life around to sign up for one more class with his master.
The author tells us about his weekly meetings with a man who still had much to teach and while some people have claimed this book to be "mushy stuff that everybody already knows", I found it a beautiful read. There's much about life we all take for granted and I think it important to be able to stop and look at where we are going. Without reevaluating who we are, who we have become, we can never really turn into who want to be. This book touches many deep issues, but the most important one for me is about relationships.
We can get caught up in a thousand things, running around just to keep life going day by day, and still forget to live. This book is can be a great reminder of lessons we may learned along the way and forgot to put in practice or even an introduction to "what really matters".
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