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Book Blessing: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albon

It was humbling, this book can teach anyone how to live life without the fear of death, or how to live life knowing full well we're gonna die soon.

My favorite part of this book

• "Well, how can you do that if you’re detached?“Ah. You’re thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it... If I hold back on the emotions – if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them – you can never get to being detached; you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, “all right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”
• we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don’t let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don’t say anything because we’re frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship
• "i've learned this much about marriage. You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't.
  
  Is there some kind of rule to know if a marriage is going to work?
  
  Things are not simple, Mitch. Still, he said. 'There are a few rules i know to be true about love and marriage:
  If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.
  If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.
  If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.
  And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
  And the biggest one of those value.... your belief in the importance of your marriage"

I saw his new book on the shelf... "For one More Day". It will be my next book to read.. after I’ve finish reading my current book lah of course. Happy reading!