Tuesdays with Morrie -
Over the past few days, my class has been watching the movie 'Tuesdays with Morrie'. During the last few months of Morrie's life, he passes on some of his wisdom and his thoughts on to his friend Mitch. Mitch, like the rest of us, has a busy life and gets uncomfortable with topics like death. Morrie begins to pose some questions at Mitch about love, death, family, relationships etc. One of the big questions was, why are people (especially Americans) so afraid to receive love? Personally, I think the reason why we get so afraid of people loving us, is because we don't want to get hurt. Just listen to all the songs on the radio! Half of them are about a broken heart or how someone cheated on them! If we open ourselves up to love, than we also open ourselves up to pain. In our culture, showing that you are in pain is a sign of weakness. And for some odd reason, we get it drilled into our minds at birth, that to be weak and to need something is bad. Our culture is so against asking for help. I think that's because we think that we have to be so independent.