"Love or Die" ...so much to learn about life from a dying man.

I was up late again watching "insomniac's news" WNN - World News Now, today, Wednesday early morning at 2:30 am. Ron Corning and Heather Cobet started talking about Ted Coppel who has been working on Nightline for over 25 years and had just retired last night.

Ted Coppel covered many stories but the one that was very significant to him is a story he coverd on Morrie Schwartz, a retired sociology professor that had ALS which is Lou Gerick's disease. In his younger years, Morrie was a dancer when he was younger. In 1994 when this interview was done this disease had taken away his passion. But he still had the passion to teach. Then I saw the interview between the two. I was crying and touching the screen when they showed Morrie...on WWN. (I have this weird thing that if I feel connected to something I need to touch it, even if they're on TV.) Anyway I had read a book by Mitch Albom who was a former graduate student of Morrie's and wrote the infamous and must read book "Tuesdays with Morrie." In the old footage of the interview in 1995 while he was nearing death, Ted asked Morrie, do you have any last thoughts and he said "Love or Die." Morrie also told Ted about a story of two waves...

[The boy wave was depressed and one day, he saw another wave bobbing next to him but she was happy. She said as she was bobbing she asked, "what's wrong?", he said "I'm scared, what will become of me when we hit that wall, you see that concrete wall ahead? We're going to crash! ..and then what's going to become of us.!?" She said "We're not just waves! We're apart of the Ocean there's nothing to be scared of." Correct me if I didn't recall his words exactly but this story left an impression on him that he truly believes that "We are all apart of Humanity. All in it together."]

If you have never read this book, this is a book that should be mandatory in life to read. Thanks Ted for Retiring today, for if he didn't I would have forgotten to pass on that this is A GREAT BOOK! And one from the great man himself is Morrie: In His Own Words...

P.S. Happy Retirement Ted! And believe me when I say...In no way am I benefiting from this, I am eager to share with you a book about someone been there, done that in love and life and suffering and understands the cliff's notes on Life.

Consider it a Lucky Note on Lucky Notes...

Posted: 3:48 a.m. EST November 23, 2005 by Anne Meesriyong