Tuesdays with Morrie

The Syllabus

  In the fall of 1994, Morrie came to the hilly Brandeis campus to teach his final college course. He could have skipped this, of course. The university would have understood. Why suffer in front of so many people? Stay at home. Get your affairs in order. But the idea of quitting did not occur to Morrie.
  Instead, he hobbled into the classroom, his home for more than thirty years. Because of the cane, he took a while to reach the chair. Finally, he sat down, dropped his glasses off his nose, and looked out at the young faces who stared back in silence.
  "My friends, I assume you are all here for the Social Psychology class. I have been teaching this course for twenty years, and this is the first time I can say there is a risk in taking it, because I have a fatal illness. I may not live to finish the semester. If you feel this is a problem, I understand if you wish to drop the course."
  He smiled.
  And that was the end of his secret.

Tuesdays with Morrie, The Syllabus 中

 수 많은 사람들 앞에서 자신은 불치병에 걸렸으며, 자신이 죽어가고 있다는 것을 밝힐 수 있기 위해선 도대체 얼마나 큰 용기가 필요한걸까? 죽어가는 자신을 위해 마지막으로 할 수 있는 가장 값진 것이 무엇인지를 알고, 또한 그것을 행할 수 있는 용기가 있다면 내 삶이 더욱 의미있어지지 않을까 생각해본다. :)