Tuesday's With Morrie 500 word essay

Final draft

When you're in bed, you're dead. This aphorism applies to me a lot. Pretty much my entire high school experience has been spent just going to class. I was in band for three years but I quit because I did not want to put in the effort. Then in ninth grade I was offered a spot in the Beta club, but I was kicked out because my grades were bad. Now I stay home on the weekends because I do not have anything else to do. I'm in my 'bed' and I'm 'dead'. But I have done a few things that stopped me from staying in the 'bed'! I went to my first homecoming this year and I plan on going to prom as well. I also got to go to my first school football game, due to my brother being in band and my mom and I having to go so he would have a ride home. I have learned from these experiences. If I want to get out of the 'bed' and do something worthwhile, I have to put in some effort. Sure, I could have skipped homecoming, making up some excuse like 'I'll be the only one without a date' or 'I'll just be sitting there all night alone' but I kept telling myself that if I didn't go, I was going to regret it after I graduate. So I went and I had a great time! A friend of mine didn't have a date either so we spent the night hanging out, dancing, and eating. It was really memorable and I'm glad I went. The same thing happened with the football games. I know NOTHING about football but I did enjoy watching all of my classmates going crazy anytime our team scored. The halftime shows got a little boring though. They had to perform the same thing every single time! But the games were still fun. That probably would have been another thing I would have regretted not going to after I graduated. I now know that if we all get out and do things that we used to think were 'too hard' or 'unaccomplishable', we will come out that much better because we actually did the things instead of complaining about them! We decided we were not going to be 'dead' anymore and we got out of the 'bed' and did things! And that is what Morrie did! He chose to not stay in 'bed' and let the ALS get him, he chose to get out and fight! He fought the ALS by not staying silent, and by sharing what it was like to die with others and giving people all of these aphorisms! Through them, he has given people a wake up call to get out and live life, and to not just sit around and wait to die. Through the Tuesday's With Morrie book, Mitch Albom gave so many people a reason to not give up and to live their life in the best way possible!