Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @9:37 PM
It is 1979, a basketball game in the Brandeis gym. The team is doing well, and the student section begins a chant, " We're number one!" Morrie is sitting nearby. He is puzzled by the cheer. At one point, in the midst of "We're number one!" he rises and yells, " What's wrong with being number two?"
The students look at him. They stop chanting. He sits down, smiling and triumphant.
Monday, June 07, 2010 @10:24 PM
The touchy feely course.
On this day, Morrie says he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall-backward, relying on another student to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrasemnet.
finally, one student, a thin, quiet dark-haird girl whom i notice almost always wears bulky white fisherman sweater, crosses her arms over her chest, closes he eyes, leans back, and does not flinch, like one of those Lipton tea commercials where the model splashes into the pool.
For a moment, i am sure she is going to thump on the floor. At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulder and yanks her up harshly.
"Whoa!" several students yell. Some clap.
Morrie finally smiles.
"You see," he says to the girl, " you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you ever going to other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too -even when you're in the dark. Even when you are falling"
Wednesday, June 02, 2010 @10:25 PM
The tension of opposites
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you,yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted."That's tension of opposites. Sounds like a wrestling match, he say."Yes, you could describe life that way"So which side wins?He smiles, "Love wins. Love always wins."nice quote from tuesday with morries, specially dedicated for a special day.
@12:16 AM
missing the small little sweets, nt literally though.