Work

       In Tuesdays With Morrie, we see that Mitch is consumed with his work. In the beggining of the story Mitch has taken on a lot of sports journalist jobs and it has caused him to loose touch with his girlfriend and old friends. Its only when he finds out his old professor is dying that he realized the big picture of his life and mellows out after going to visit him a few times. I feel like sometimes as students, we are the same way as Mitch. We are constantly working hard to reach the next level. You have to do well in Elementary School to get placed in advanced classes in Middle School. You need to work hard in Middle School in order to get placed in advanced classes in High School. Then in High School, you feel the need to keep up with everyone else taking accelerated and AP classes so you look good on college applications. I hear kids at school talk about pulling all-nighters just to study for one test. What!? You are 17 years old, you shouldn't be depriving your body of sleep, which it vital to your health in order to study for a test on something you won't even remember a year from now. All of a sudden, there are these kids entering college as sophmores because they did so much work leading up to that point. These students work so hard to get a good education and a good job, but what ever happened to being a kid and learning just to learn and better yourself, not to compete with others? For Mitch, he realized pretty early in his life that working hard is not the most important thing, you need to appreciate your life. I worry that some of these students who start stressing so early about how to get to the top won't realize until its too late that some things are actually more important.