"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in."

Too late to the club? Maybe. But just as professor Morrie taught Mitch and me, there is no such thing as "too late" in life. So, here I am, writing my first ever book review. And what better book than the one that will always and forever remain close to my heart and keep imparting me with knowledge even as I grow old?

'Tuesdays with Morrie' is a book about how a student, Mitchell Albom, reunited with his college professor, Morris 'Morrie' Schwartz, while his professor was being crippled by a disease that ate at him, every single day of his remaining life. Working his way to the top with not a minute to spare and losing sight of the promise he made to his professor on his graduation day, Mitch is leading an extremely busy life. Until one day, he comes across an audiovisual that changes his life, maybe forever.

Well, the book sure did change mine forever. Because it's a book that talks about all the things that you may have a hard time dealing with or the things that you had no one to teach you about. And I don't think there was only one particular thing that I liked about this book. Because there isn't one thing to like. The book as a whole is a rollercoaster of realizations and lessons. But if I still had to choose one, it would be Morrie's take on death and how the acceptance of this fact would want you to defy the norms of how one is expected to live. How we would want to do things differently because we acknowledge that death is a part of the deal we made when we were born. As Morrie said, "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

Additionally, the way Morrie could make anyone feel comfortable enough to reveal the deepest of their sorrows was what I loved the most too. His ability to listen unwaveringly without any judgements and how he believed that crying was a perfectly normal thing to do, regardless of what gender you belonged to. All his talks about the world, regrets, family, emotions, aging, money, love, marriage, culture, forgiveness, trust in addition to death takes you on a whirlwind journey and it is the kind of wisdom I would want to carry with me till the day I die.

Being someone who could read a 400-page book in one day, this one took me about a week. And until I wasn't approaching its end, I didn't realize why this had been happening. But the moment I was done, I realized that it was because this was the first ever book that I didn't want to end. It was the first book that truly left me wanting for more. It's one of those books whose each word you want to give the time to sink in before moving on to the next. And the one book I would recommend every person, whether a reader or a non-reader, young or old, to read at least once in their lifetime.

"Giving is Living."

- IntricatelyExpressed