‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ offers a glimpse of satisfactory life

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a book about Mitch, a sociology professor. Or it’s about Morrie, his favourite student. No, it’s about the Tuesdays they spent together, first during the sophomore years of Mitch’s life and then during the last few months of Morrie’s.

They talk about the world, the need for forgiving ourselves, the impact of emotions, death, life and family. In their conversations, we can find the glimpse of a satisfactory life lead by an old dying man and a young man’s realisation of how he changed to fit in with the norms of culture and society.

I have read this book at three different stages of my life — at the end of college, during a mid-university life crisis and now, stepping into the big complicated world of work. It made sense then, and it makes sense now. The ones we come to trust in the weak and vulnerable stages of our lives will continue to be a source of guidance and joy as long as we keep finding a way back to them. It may take a lifetime to trust someone, but the struggle will always be worth it. Because ‘trust’ rewards us in the finest of ways.

The people I have come to respect for the amount of time and trust they put in me, are the Morries of my life.

— The reader is a doctor based in Dubai.