“Because,” Morrie continued,most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking.
We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”
“And facing death changes all that?” “Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.
When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He sighed. “Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”
I noticed that he quivered now when he moved his hands. His glasses hung around his neck,
and when he lifted them to his eyes, they slid around his temples, as if he were trying to put them on someone else in the dark.
I reached over to help guide them onto his ears. “Thank you,” Morrie whispered.
He smiled when my hand brushed up against his head. The slightest human contact was immediate joy.
“Mitch. Can I tell you something?” “Of course,” I said. “You might not like it.”
“Why not?” “Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder,
if you accept that you can die at any time—then you might not be as ambitious as you are.”
I forced a small grin. “The things you spend so much time on—all this work you do—might not seem as important.
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