Personal+Reflection

Personal Reflection:
The book Tuesdays with Morrie was a really inspirational book, and personally I loved it. Morrie was just one of those people that very few things can keep them down for very long, and he lived in the now. He did not delve too much into the past and regret mistakes that he made and he did not plan ahead for next month and solely concentrate on that, he lived his life day by day, focusing only on the present and living his life to the fullest. When Morrie got ALS I felt that these facts about him were brought into a brighter light because he lived his life; living as he was dying.

This book hit me real hard because my grandfather on my mother’s side when through roughly the same thing when he had cancer, although I never met him because he passed away before I was born, but I still love him from the stories that my mom has told me about him. It is the same thing with Morrie. I never actually got to meet him in person, but I feel like I have from what I have learned about him.

The project for the book I think was fair enough. You had to do six choices from the choices list and you could do it your own way on a wiki or on paper. I chose the wiki because I felt I could branch out with that even more than I possibly could on paper. The creating process has been a really cool experience for me, I had never known how aggravating and difficult making a wiki was, but I do now! Though the challenge is what made it really fun, not to mention the fact that it was something totally different from the norm that I am used to, and was a change of pace for a project. It also gave me a chance at trying to see how well I could get myself organized on a computer which can be challenging, although the computer did most of the work.

Overall I really enjoyed the book and the project because they both were something different from what I normally do.