Tuesday's With Morrie 500 word essay

500 word essay

When you're in bed, you're dead. This is one of many aphorisms in the book Tuesday's With Morrie, and one of many that Morrie teaches to Mitch. Throughout the book, Morrie rarely stays in bed, choosing instead to be in his study. Morrie does this because he knows that if he stays in bed, he'll be surrendering to the ALS and waiting for death to take him. Instead he chooses to get out of bed, to live the rest of his life surrounded by family and friends, and giving away as much of his knowledge as he can so that it may better the lives of others.  The aphorism when your in bed, your dead not only goes along with Morrie getting out of bed each morning, but it also can be related to everyday life. When I choose not to learn anything, I'm not living up to my full potential. I want to have a life that's worth something but am I willing to put the work in to get it? This is especially true in most people today.  Teenagers and young people, myself included, are so used to getting what they want as soon as possible instead of going out and putting in the effort for it.  For example, before the days of apps like Grubhub and Doordash that let you order food from the comfort of your couch, people had to actually leave their homes and drive to restaurants to order food.  Before the days of the internet, people had to go to the library to find information.  Before texting, people had to actually pick up a phone and call someone.  People today wouldn't know how to operate if they couldn't find the answer to something on Google or YouTube.  I am actually guilty of all of these things.  If I don't know the answer to a homework problem, I immediately get on my phone and Google it.  If I tried to actually get the answer on my own without any help from technology, yes I would go through some trial and error before I get the correct answer, but I would eventually have the knowledge to solve it and I could use that knowledge to help other students who are struggling with the problem.  If people don't go out and try to solve their problems themselves, not only are they doing themselves an injustice, their doing an injustice to the people that could have benefited from their help.  Next year I'll be a 12th grader.  I'll only have one year left before I graduate and I go out into the real world.  If I don't learn this lesson now, I may not give life everything I have and I will end up in a situation where I have to depend on others to solve my problems for me.  When you're in bed, you're dead.  Morrie chose an excellent aphorism for not just himself, but for everyone out there who was just going through the phases of life.