Acceptance

1) I accept that there are things in life I cannot change. I accept that there are people in my life that I will lose. I accept that I will live my life fearing the worst. All of these things I live with everyday, not always fully aware of them. But we all come to a point of acceptance in our lives.

2) Morrie's obvious acceptance of his impending death shows how strong of a person he is. Morrie seems to know exactly who he is. Maybe that makes his circumstances easier to accept. Even after we see him preaching to his students with such confidence, I believe Morrie must've had a blissful ignorance about it. He didn't know what death felt like.

Other than Morrie's acceptance of his own death, we look to his loved one's acceptances. From what Mitch says, we see that h is not ready to let Morrie go. Mitch, like all of the people Morrie has touched in his lifetime, seem to be less accepting of his condition than he is.

3) I feel that if I were in Morrie's position I would try my best to accept my condition. My only fear would be that I did not have the chance to experience all that I wanted to in my life. How can we accept our own departure when we aren't ready to go? How can I be sure that I have done good, that I have touched people with my life? Its easy to be sucked into the normalcy of day to day life, but if you fall know you lived it to the fullest.

4) Is acceptance the same as giving up?

The reason I ask this question is because I feel that I could never accept my own death without doubting that my life was complete. What does it take to feel complete? Complete so the we might accept our circumstances and make do with what we have.