Interview with Morrie Schwartz:
To start off, he is an adorable old man & I want to adopt him as my grandpa. I liked having a face to put with the character. In the book you know he's open about dying & his death. In the beginning of the interview he's open with showing people the affects of Lou Gehrig's & that while he still can, he's doing all that he can do. Once he loses the ability to move his arms, chew/swallow food & talk, he won't be able to do anything.
When Morrie made a list of things the film crew could do for him, none of it was material items. He wanted them to call him, spend time with him, take him to the movies. He just wanted human companionship. Instead of pulling himself away from the world & taking pity on himself, he finds himself calling more people & being happy & optimistic about the rest of his life.
I believe it is impossible to adopt dead people, however, I see what you are getting at. Selflessness, which is what you are discussing here, is one of the aspects of both Morrie and his story that I would wish that all the students who are exposed to this book would take away from it. If you, as a teenager girl, can learn to detach yourself from selfishness, and self pity and accept that things happen and they are sometimes good and sometimes bad, but they are, in general, neither your fault or something you can control, you will walk away from this book and this class with a great and valuable skill.
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