I. After Mitch graduated from college he had wanted to be a musician, but after he saw his uncle die, he realized that he couldn't waste anymore time doing what he thought was pointless things and traded his dreams for money. He worked day and night as a sports journalist, burying himself in his work. He hardly had any time for his wife or his family. It is only after all the visits to Morrie that Mitch finally understood that he had wasted all those years concentrating only on earning money and buying expensive materialistic things. From the Tuesdays that he travel to visit Morrie Mitch learned that he, like Morrie, wants to die knowing that his family and friends were there with him, and he had lived life to the fullest, and that he had influenced as many lives as he could have.
II. Mitch changed the way he felt about death. During the first few weeks with Morrie, he always felt uncomfortable whenever Morrie showed signs that he's dying. Every time Morrie talks about death, Mitch would try to change the subject; he couldn't accept the idea that his old professor was going to die soon. When Morrie has to use the oxygen machine in order to breathe, Mitch couldn't look at it because it showed the inevitable evidence that Morrie is dying. But as the weeks go by, Mitch learned that there's nothing foreboding about it. Everybody dies, and the sooner they realized it the sooner they can live a more meaningful life. With every visit, Mitch became less uncomfortable about the physical embarrassment, he usually excuse himself whenever Morrie's physical therapists or nurses comes in to help him, but he surprise himself by offering to pound on Morrie's back for him one day.
III. It had took Mitch seven years to propose to Janie. Even though Mitch was always busy traveling all over the world to cover numerous sports events, Janie still stayed with Mitch. Although Mitch had promised to start a family with Janie since she wanted children ver...