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Tension Of Opposites

The tension of opposites…   Life is a series of pulls back and forth.   You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.   Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t.   You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. (40)   While reading Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom, I felt this “tension of opposites” very strongly.   When I first finished the book, I was feeling very unsettled.   After hearing about the book from several friends and classmates, I had certain expectations for the book which were not fulfilled.   I thought that I would have an obvious realization or moment of understanding but it never came.   Feeling that I had missed something, I went back and read the book again.   The second time, I began to notice that many of the things Morrie discusses are ideas that I already hold true in my life.   Instead of experiencing an epiphany, this book is an affirmation of many of my personal beliefs.   On a counseling level, my ideas and style of counseling are still in the stages infancy.   I have only begun to realize the importance of the counseling relationship.   Although Mitch refers to Morrie as “teacher” and “professor”, I believe that the way they interact also very much a counseling relationship.
            At first, I thought that it sounded a little conceited for me to say that Morrie’s ideas merely affirmed what I already know and I cannot say that I learned NOTHING personally from this book.   I have never been close to dying myself but I believe I have considered life and death in much the same way as Morrie, just from a different angle.   My husband is a soldier in the Army and he spent a year in Iraq.   He did not hide anything that happened there from me.   I felt it was my duty as his spouse and best friend to listen to what he had to say and support him,...

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