So I don’t see the similarity with the two.

Sarah – thanks for your blog, I like reading yr fellow columnists’ sam de brito & mia freedman’s when I have time, but yours is more than just entertaining, thought-provoking and engaging like theirs – it is also good for me!

I absolutely loved Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, especially the former.

I don’t have a question per se, but I would love Mitch to elaborate on Morrie’s adage of creating your own culture, building your own community. Actually a question I do have is:
– What did Mitch do to change his own life after Morrie’s death? Not in terms of his career change, because that is obvious, but more in terms of his lifestyle and everyday routine. I love the part of the book where Morrie describes his perfect(ly normal) day and I wonder if Mitch thinks about that when he goes about his daily routine.

This are two of my favourite passages from Tuesdays with Morrie, which relate to my questions (if posting them breaches copyright, then feel free to delete them!)

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.”

“Here’s what I mean about building your own little subculture. I don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around naked, for example. I don’t run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you. The biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at your potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say “I want mine now”, you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it. The problem is that we don’t believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we night be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”

“Do you think you would have recovered as well with your loved ones loss without writing Tuesdays with Morrie? Do you have any advice for others who have lost a loved one and are still grieving?”

“Tuesdays with Morrie” and “For One More Day” really got my heart-strings strumming.

The question I have kind of combines both of these books. I would ask Mitch, after all the Tuesdays he spent with Morrie, was there anything left unsaid?

Thanks,
Marcus

Oprah Winfrey seems to really dig his work; she’s been plugging him on her show for years and turning his books into movies. So why not ask him what’s Oprah like in person?

p.s. I’m so tender and insightful – lol