‘If a book hasn't changed something in you, it has failed its purpose’. Trust me, this book will change a lot of things and perspectives in you. It has portrayed the life and its struggle in such a beautiful and subtle way that you cannot help but wonder about it. 

The book is a simple conversation between a student and his dying professor. Each Tuesday they talk about things that in general we humans fear, but the answer that Morrie (the professor) gives is simple, content and heartwarming and will make you question your beliefs.

We all like Mitch, the author gets lost in the rush of life and the struggle to succeed, the human desires never tend to end, a bigger house, a luxurious car and a fancy vacation, but none of these materialistic things tends to satisfy our souls and enriches our beliefs. It is only later in life or maybe through a drastic change of events that we realise life has a very deeper meaning to it. 

The book is a must-read and it will give you a standpoint on and everything right from marriage, to ageing, to dying, to regrets and a lot more.

Here are some of the life lessons that could be implemented from the book to our daily lives-

• One should every simply accept what he/she is capable of and learn to let go of things that they are not able to do. Once we understand this life becomes easier.
• One of my favourites is - ‘ Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. At some point of time in life, it becomes extremely crucial to forgive yourself first and let go of all the mistakes you did. We humans, we make mistakes, you can't keep beating yourself up for it.
• One doesn't have to admit each and everything that culture states if a particular culture doesn't work for you, create your own.
• Magnificently Morrie said- ‘ We humans need to learn to give out love and let it come in, we in the race of life assume that emotions make us soft or weak but we need to realise to make peace with our life, you need to make peace with your emotions too.
• We all have regrets in our lives and trust me a lot of it, What if I did this? What if I didn't do that? The list remains never-ending, but all this guilt and regrets will eat us up alive. We all need to daily limit our self-pity. We did mistakes and now we need to simply move on.
• Just as birth, death is an integral part of life. Everything that is born, stretches towards death at some point in time. We as humans take death as a petrifying event, and it is inevitable. The only thing that we can take control of is how many regrets or joy we want to carry with us on our deathbeds. “ Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”.
• A very famous Buddhist saying - “Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent”. As Morrie suggests- we feel a thousand emotions, but we cant cling to any particular one for the rest of the day, week or life. We need to detach from our particular emotions and not let them drain all our energy and move forward to various kinds of emotions.
• Next time you are with someone, and you have this urge to let your feelings out, or tell them how you feel about them, do it, do it right away. We don't have an entire lifespan to be distraught about what those words might do to the relationship.
• “ I believe in being fully present,” said Morrie, and these simple words could put your world upside down. Whenever we are with someone we are never fully present, there is always some phone call you need to make, some assignment you need to finish, or conversation playing back in your head. Most of us are never even fully present. Maybe for once try being fully present with someone, give them your 100%.
• Lastly, there is no such thing as too late in life. For anything that makes your heart pound, you are too young for it.