The simple things in live bring more happiness then material things you can purchase with money would ever be able give you
~Live in the moment, don't worry about ageing but enjoy life to the fullest
~Forgive, not only others but also yourself
~It is okay to cry
~Value your friends and most importantly tour family because they will always be there for you
~Love is the single, most important thing in life
~If the culture of the world doesn't 'suit' your own lifestyle, create your own
~To be able to detach yourself from an feeling you first need to allow yourself to experience it fully

In his last moments, Morrie was ‘in between’ the gap between life and death, thus able to inform the readers valuable and important things they should ‘pack’. Morrie Schwartz was a professor and a teacher until the end
Life nowadays has been complicated. I have learned from the book that in order to live in harmony and avoid unnecessary conflict, we must learn how to communicate and compromise. It’s best to have a positive attitude, and have the ability to turn what might often be perceived as a negative situation, into a privilege. In the book, Morrie had also inferred that we should not let self-pity consume you, but concentrate on the good things in your life, because if you do not, you might lose sight of what is important and what is not.

‘Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.’ Morrie talked a lot about death in the book. He said that when we are looking death in the eye, we look at life from a different place, a healthier place, a more sensible place; it is as if some mystical clarity of thought comes. Culture does not encourage you to think if ‘what if this is your last day on earth’ until you are about to die. We get wrapped up in egotistical things, career, family, money, and materialistic things – we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. This is why we do not look back at lives, and think if we are living a life we want. If we were to die today, would we die in peace, knowing that we have lived life to the fullest? In my opinion, when we learn to die, we learn to live. Mitch had said that maybe death is a great equalizer, the big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. This is because love is essential for one to truly live, and when we are on death’s door, we learn to love things we have always taken for granted. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come it. Morrie had repeated emphasized that ‘Love is the only rational act’.

Everyone knows that they are going to die, but nobody believes it. It we did, we would be doing things differently. The better approach for death is to accept that you are going to die, and be prepared for it at any time. This way, one would be more involved in life. You should ask yourself if today is the day, would be ready, have you done all you wanted to do, and if you are the person you want to be.