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The only dialogue I could remember: Mitch: “What’s the point of loving?” Morie: “There’s no point in loving, because loving is the point!”
Mitch is the long lost student who promised his sociology teacher Morie to get in touch after graduation, but never did. He was reminded of his promise many years after when a flashed news featured the aging teacher. So he decided to pay him a visit, and that first visit became a regular one: weekly, every Tuesday. He even caught himself giving in to all of his formers’ teachers requests.
When Morie died, Mitch cried, as expected, a stage drama cliche.. But there’s more to it than what meets the eye, guilt.
Let me end that story with another story.
There’s a favorite German story which was shared on that meeting among Hitler’s advisers when they decided the genocide against the 12 million jews: fortunately they missed 50% off target, yet still 6 million lives is still six million human lives.
Anyway, the story:
The general narrated, “There’s a boy who was raised by his mother, grew up with full of anger and hatred of his father who abandoned them in his childhood. When his mother died, he never shed a tear. Years after his mother was gone, a news reached him about his father’s death. For being the only surviving relative, he was left with no choice. On the funeral he could not contain himself. He’s missing his father and he shed tears like no other, and cried like he never cried before. ”
The other officers were asking, “Why? Ironic, isn’t it?” The general continued, “…because all the boys life he filled his heart with anger and hatred, and his father’s death empty his heart out. He simply misses him. ” The general concluded: ” Let’s be sure that this hatred against the Jews did not fill our hearts, for when they are gone, we would all miss them!.”
Mitch, filled his heart with guilt that’s why he could not say no to the dying teacher’s whims. He thought that he could payback those lost years by giving in to all his cravings. But the teacher’s death came earlier, and earlier than he could empty his heart with what’s filling it.
hi Ria
i think i have read all the books of Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays…. other than “For one more day”— this book is about your relationship with your mother —- there is another book “the five people you meet in heaven” —- something worth reading too. i prefer to take my time reading his books.
Tuesdays was shown in cebu a couple of weeks ago as a play —- MItch was Bart Guingona and Morrie , i missed the actor. this was the last play of Bart. he bowed out from the theater — i do not know the reason. i watched the first time Tuesdays was shown in cebu — with actors BArt Guingona and Avancena . it was a heavy play with my eyes edematous and nose filled with sipon and a headache when i got out of the theater. nonetheless, it was worth the 2 hours plus of tears filled session.
kumusta ka na ria?
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Yvonne Redoble??? ikaw ni?
Hoy bisitaha ko diri sa LA uy. Well I am not really in LA. I am in Orange COunty… a lot better than LA area. Bitaw uy suroy diri. You can stay in may apartment. I’ve got a spare bed room. Laag diri kay mang laki ta. hahahah Bahala na ng mga toguwang diha kung mo-react.
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susmaryosep..naunsa na man ni
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nakatawa jud ko pag react nimo angie… tigulang na jud ka no? anha sad ko yang, apil ko ninyo yvonne. mahalin kaha ko? hahhahahah…..
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i do not care of the aged people’s reactions. as long as i am happy and i make somebody else’s life happier —- live and let live!!!! actually no offense meant… am not so keen about visiting usa again. i would rather go around europe or explore the exotic asian countries. will be set to explore batanes on april 22 to 27. hopefully latter part of this year will either be kerala india or espana. depende sa resources.
am still in a blissful state of singlehood. my midlife blessing is the contentment i feel sans a man in my life — sorry to the Redoble XY people, women do not really need a man in their life to be contented —– hahaha , i can imagine the reactions of everybody the XX and the XY —– will end with the that statement
be well everyone.
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