Tuesday with Morrie

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.” The culture we have makes people feel lower about themselves. In the novel Tuesday with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, Morrie explains how the culture we have shows people young, thin, pretty and adventurous, when really some people are not. “We’re teaching the wrong things.” We’re teaching teenage girls that the only way you can be liked is if you fit the body size, you’ll only be attractive if you are thin. In magazines all it shows is how skinny girls are, and how you need to get killer abs in ten days. Also telling girls how they need to get rid of there winter chub because summer is coming. The pressure of body size destroys the self-confidence of any teenage girls. Morrie also stats that “[people] have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.” I think he is trying to say, don’t like the influence of magazines and TV fool you, don’t like the “Total Gym” or “Weight Watchers” fool you, they look for overweight people to buy into them everyday. The media displays only beautiful, young ladies, to bad there all airbrushed and unnatural. No teenage girl is like that, many try there hardest to be like like that. The media pushes girls to be like the airbrushed ladies, but in the end girls end up harming themselves just to be like them. The culture we have makes its seem like the only way we can be liked is if we have the looks, the body size, the richness, and the popularity. Lastly Morrie says that people are even more “unhappy than me-even in my present condition.” Morrie is dying, but he still sees himself as perfectly fine, he doesn't worry about his status he doesn't need to be the richest man on the block, he already feels the richest because he has the love of his friends and family around him. Most people do buy into the lottery tickets or the big cars and houses, they don't look at whats rich love and friendship is right infront of them. They focus on the big idea of being known as the rich and famous person. But Morrie understands there’s more to somebody than body size and beauty and being rich. Just look deep, the beauty spot is what inside someone.