Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

SALAM

Warning,this post is very long. Your brain might be bombed or you will eat dunk for a whole day. Reading description is adviced. WAHAHAHA

"We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-and have it repeated to us-over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

"Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. 'Guess what I got? Guess what I got?'

"You know how I always interpreted this? These were people were so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitutes material things for love or gentleness or for tenderness or for sense of comradeship

"Money is not substitute for tenderness, and power is not substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter of how much of them you have."

"There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need. You need food. You want chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house.

"The truth is you don't get satisfaction form the things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?"

What?

"Offering others what you have to give"

You sound like a Boy Scout

"I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean you time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard. There's senior centre that opened near here. Dozens of elderly people come there every day. If you are a young man or young woman and you have a skill, you are asked to come and teach it. Say you know computers. You come there and teach them computers. You are welcomed there. And they are very grateful. This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

"There are plenty paces to do this. You don't need to have a big talent. There are lonely people in hospitals and shelters who only want some companionship. You play cards with lonely older man and you find new respect for yourself, because you are needed.

"Mitch, if you are trying to show off people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you are trying to show off people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you float equally between everyone.

"Why do you think it's so important for me to hear other people's problems? Don't I have enough pain and suffering of my own?

"Of course I do. But giving to other people is what makes me alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close as to healthy as I ever feel.

"Do the kind of things that come form the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back."

-Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom page 124-128

Do you feel anything?Well, only a wise man that had been gifted brain by Allah can say like that. I'm 100% sure many of the sayings(wahaha...crap) are what our Muslim Studies(betul ke Muslim Studies?bhahaha) teacher had taught us. But maybe your teacher haven't teach or tell you about this,my mistake...It shows that Allah is powerful...think bagi kita benda cenonet kecik ni pon Allah ada sebut.

YET MANY DENY

I know someone who is just not like Morrie talked about...

ME

So in the way to fight to having things that I shouldn't have, I will tough my faith.

Dengar yer...LAWAN NAFSU JUGA JIHAD

:D

LOVE

AFNEy