Tuesdays With Albom Analysis

We have all experienced anger and we all have an understanding of what anger is. Anger can vary from mild irritation to tense fury and can be generated by a variety of things such as people, events, memories, or personal problems. Anger is a natural productive emotion and it can become destructive and problematic. We get angry for many reasons. We get angry when we do not receive respect and when our expectations are not met, whether those expectations are about the future, ourselves, or others. Anger can and is expressed in different ways. Some react to anger with aggression and sometimes aggression is the appropriate response, as it allows us to defend ourselves. We often correlate anger to a road rage experience when driving through traffic. Anger is essential to our daily lives and it is an emotion that has been categorized into the seven deadly sins of mankind. Anger is a common emotion just like happiness, and sadness. One way or another humans have all dealt with anger and have controlled it in different ways.
We all have our own reactions to death, which all may be different than one another. Some are so consumed by grief and agony that they nearly themselves. Others take a moment to reflect on life, think about the good and bad that is about to come. I
have known people who look at death and laugh. They are so amused with the grand irony of life that no one escapes alive, that their attitude is sometimes perceived as callous and cruel. I do not see death that way. It takes a brave person to see the face of death and respond with a one-finger salute. Perhaps because they, too, will one day find themselves groping in the darkness. After reading Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, I began to think a lot about death and how we take things, time, and people for granted while we are alive.
Morrie was a man of many lessons, experiences, and wise words. Morrie said, “Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on-in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.” I agree with Morrie. There are many things in life that go unnoticed. We are too busy with ourselves, and we forget about others. Once they are gone we begin to miss them and wish for just one more day with them, but even when they are gone all those memories will
remain.
Is it a selfish to miss someone when they are gone? We have someone in our lives who is a perfect living, breathing body but once they are gone we seem to appreciate them more. I think we do this because we know we took them and time for granted. We know for a fact that we did not appreciate this person as much as we should have when they were around. We cannot fully appreciate someone until they are fully gone. We can learn to appreciate while they are still there but we tend to long for the things we used to have and do with them and then we realize that those things are now irreplaceable and we end up hoping for them to come back and wish for more time to spend with them.
From my own experience, I believe we begin to miss people when they are gone because of the happiness we once shared with them and the way they once made you feel. Sometimes missing someone is based solely off of the abrupt change of having the chance to know someone and then having that chance taken away, because you are left with the endless feeling that you are missing out on something. Sometimes you can only learn so much from someone, yet your hunger to learn more is what drives you to them again and again.