Sunday, March 8, 2009

Journal 4

Topic 4: Importance

1) Importance is something that is significant and meaningful in any person's life. It could be a material thing, or a value, or something else entirely.

2) "In this culture, it's so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that."

Here, Morrie is saying that it's important to find someone you love deeply because nothing else will give you that. This could be a spouse, a friend, or your children. It could mean any person that you know and care for. When he says that "so much of the culture does not give you that", I think he's trying to say that the manifestations of humans will never give you the comfort, care, and dependence that a loving relationship will give you. You have to rely on yourself to find this person, and you can't just hope time, as well as society, will do it for you.

"The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone- or any society- determine those for you."

You should never let anyone control you, or tell you what to do. If you think racism should be ended, but everyone around you keeps beating up and segregating minorities, don't be influenced by them. If you are with your friends and they start stealing clothing from a store; you feel it's wrong, but they are pressuring you, go with what you think, not what they want you to do. No one should determine how you should live, how you should think, what you believe to be important. I think it's funny how, here in America, they tell us we are free, but, the truth is, we are far from it. They tell us how to live our lives; laws restrict us. Commercials influence what we should buy and do. The BIG guys control our lives. Don't completely give in to this. Do what you think is right, what you believe.

3) I agree with what the quotes are saying. Though they are few in millions of important things, they are important, at least for some. What is important for one person may not be important to another; this is what makes us all different. The book really just made me think about the topic; not really REthink it. I already know about importance and it's differences, but the book brought it back up. I enjoy how Tuesdays with Morrie makes me think and gives me new ideas. I think everyone should read it.

4) What comes up in your head when you think of the word importance?

I straightaway think of the the book we're reading, Tuesdays with Morrie. The lessons Morrie teaches Mitch are things that I believe are the most important lessons we can have in life. These lessons can be put to use in the world around us. They can make it better. Love, forgiveness, trust..... every topic is important; it is important to think about them. The content of the book was left for us by Mitch, who was given it by Morrie. He left us these lessons so the world could be better and we could be better people.

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