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In Morrie's interview I feel like I related to him speaking about crying. I use to feel like it was a sign of weakness but now I know it is not. Crying is a sign of care and compassion. I also believe it can be good to cry because you release when you cry. I agree with Morrie when he stated crying makes you stronger.I believe it is good to show emotion. I also felt very connected when Morrie spoke about his death coming. My grandpa is old and my family doesn't know how long he has. When someone doesn't have that much time it makes you want to spend more time with them and make the best of it. I felt very connected to Morrie's insights and agree with them.

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One of Morrie's ideas that I connect to most deeply was that once u start experiencing pain you begin to understand others struggles a lot better. He said this towards the end of the interview and starts to get really emotional. However, Morrie was not sentimental about what he was going through rather the thought of what others have to.

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Throughout these interviews Morrie explained himself very well and is not really scared anymore to express his emotions to others.

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Morrie has updated his life after his previous interview. He seems more open to talk about his ALS. He seems to be a lot more aware that he is dying and has explained on recent struggled. He elaborates on how he has trouble swallowing his food and that it can be a struggle to eat food since he can only lift his arms to a certain distance. He accepts that he is weak and is going to die. He hopes he goes out on the best note and is happy that he has lived a great life.

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In the interview he explains to Ted how he knows that his voice is going to be gone soon. There is more and more signs of death coming up for Morrie. He says that he will not go a hospital and die he wants to be in his own house. He also states that when he cries he cries about everything he is grieving not just one thing. Morrie talks about not being afraid of showing your emotions and not to be embarrassed. I am always embarrassed of my feelings but I do share them.

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In this interview we learn about how Morrie feels about his final moments in life. He gets very sentimental while reading letters and talking to Ted Koppel. Morrie feels the affects of ALS progress more everyday. He sheds a few tears in this interview which shows us how much this disease has impacted his life. Morrie shows us that there is nothing wrong in crying. We are all human and crying helps us cope with sadness. Morrie explains how he would soon not be able to talk and move his hands. This hurts him because he likes to talk with both his hands and voice. Morrie shows his emotions in a variety of ways and he knows that one day those emotions will be taken away from him. Morrie is a very wise man and I feel that we can all learn a lot from him and his wise words.

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In Morrie's second interview, he covered several topics, such as him slowly closing in on his death. He talks about how people tell him that he looks and sounds fine, but only he knows that his time coming to an end. The idea that I connected most deeply to was when Morrie talked about if he were to meet with his friend Maurie again and they would sit in silence. He mentions that they have had such a long relationship that they could just sit together without saying a word and it would be totally okay. They would understand how they feel about each other, and I thought that was pretty cool.

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Throughout the series of interviews, Morrie seems to get more and more comfortable, and opens up to the speaker about his struggles with life and ALS. He is not one to back down or fear from expressing his emotions on camera. One moment that really touched my heart was when Morrie said, "My tears are not signs of weakness but undeniable strength." Along with his tears of strength, Morrie explained his everlasting friendship that does not need hearing or speech. As a society we get too caught up in what an individual can do for you, or how they make you happy, and we forget to cherish that individuals presence in our lives.

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In the interview he talks about his emotions. I can tell from this that he is a very emotional person due to how he describes his emotions. He shows how he knows everything and has everything planned out. He knows how he is going to die but one thing he does not know is when he is going to die due to the fact that ALS is unpredictable. But the way Morrie expressed it shows how he knows what is going to happen and to me it looks like he is not scared of death. He is also very emotional, when he is asked to read a letter from his mom he starts to cry. I think I would be very depressed if I knew how I was going to die, death is a strange thing and if you know that you are going to die.

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For Morrie's second video interview he expressed his feelings about how its like to live with ALS. The insights that Morrie shared were that he is always worried about not being able to speak or move. Also, how he is going to have to figure a new way to communicate with people around him. Morrie expresses how he knows that his life is coming to an end due to the struggles he has now.However, Morrie is a very strong man and he isn't afraid of sharing his emotions. The idea that I mostly connect to deeply is that crying doesn't show that a person is weak, it proves that they are just strong.Also, he is trying to live his life and make the most out of the time he has left.

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In the interview, Morrie discussed how he struggles with ALS and shares his personal experiences on his mother's death. Morrie discussed how its is emotional for him to know he is going to die. I can connect to the ideas Morrie says about crying. I feel that crying doesn't define you as a weak person and I feel that once you let it out. It helps you overcome the obstacle and helps you move on.

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In Morrie's video interviews with Ted Koppel, he described the struggles of his upcoming death. Throughout the his interview, I connected with Morrie's statement that tears make him stronger. I agree and I believe that crying doesn't make a person weaker. When I cry, it's my way of venting out the feelings that I feel and I can't express vocally. I also can connect with Morrie and his story of his mother passing. Although I haven't lost a family member physically, I have been put through a lot of emotional trauma due to my family. Like Morrie, I didn't let the hardships I've been put through stop me from continuing on living my life. I am still able to feel and be upset about the situations I've been put through but there's never been a moment where I've let that have a negative effect on what I'm doing.

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In the second interview, Morrie reflects on what it is like living with AlS. He explained how eventually he would lose all functions of his body. I can connect most to Morrie when he talks about how crying is nothing to be embarrassed about. I feel like sometimes crying is treated more like a weakness than anything else and can make people feel ashamed of crying. Crying allows people to express how they feel, and therefore, people shouldn't be teased about it. I think it's important for people to realize that it is okay to cry because sometimes that can make people feel better in hard times.

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Morrie's second interview held great insight pertaining to what it is like to be in the shoes of someone who is dying little by little. The second interview was caused by his own assumptions relating to how he feels his ability to talk and use his hands is going very soon. It is this idea that I most connect with. Morrie's career was teaching, and one of his favorite pass times was talking with his most beloved friends. Both of these ability require either vocal or physical expression, so in a way, whether survives to see his voice and hands go, his life would be almost not worth living. I think that it is fear of this that spurred desire to have an interview. However, this is not what we see. We see a confident man who wanted to share some of his last words with the world. We see a man, who despite being close to losing one of his last freedoms, freedom of speech, chose not to spend those last months in mourn of his impending doom. It is this ideology that I connect with and aspire to have. I want to achieve this level of satisfaction in what I have, rather than what I'm losing. I've viewed something similar to Morrie's progression of ALS in my family friend's diagnoses with Alzheimers. He didn't have time to be satisfied or make the best of what he had before he forgot it, and that saddens me. Any moment could be our last and Morrie knows that. His aspirations to share his thoughts and ideas outweigh any of his fears, and in the end, if i can achieve this in life, my life will be one of meaning, which is truly why I connect most to this idea.

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Morrie's interview on the reflection of life expresses how he isn't afraid of what is eventually going to happen to him because of ALS. He talks about how he's slowly losing his ability to speak which leads him to say that we don't need words to speak to show our love towards others and there is nothing wrong with expressing emotions. Morrie isn't afraid to show emotion while he was on camera, which shows that he is strong and he isn't affected about what may people could think about him even though at one point he cries and mourns the death of his mom. I could connect to when he shows his emotions and cries and how he lost someone important to his life. However, it is thought that crying is a sign of "weakness" but it's really not being weak at all.

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In his interview with Ted Koppel, he explains about about is emotions and how he feels. Morrie talks about his mother's death and how it affected him through out his life. Morrie expressed his feeling by letting his emotions out and showing that he never gave up on anything he has going on with him. I can connect with his mother's death because recently, I lost an important woman in my life. Six months ago, I lost my grandma due to cancer and she was my everything. I let my emotions out by crying and expressing how I feel about her death. I try to remain strong and not give up.

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Morrie did an awesome job at reflecting on his life and his struggles in the second interview. Morrie showed a lot of emotion in this interview also. He talked about how ALS is affecting him both physically and mentally. He brings up how he thinks his time is coming to an end. The reason for this is his speech is going and once his speech goes, his lungs and swallowing goes away at the same time. I was really connected when he started to cry about the loss of his mother. I have recently loss a family member and I can understand the pain he is going through when he gets upset and hurt. He also brought up how we he cries, he cries for multiple things, not just one. He cries for his "demise" and for his mother.

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In his second interview with Ted Koppel, Morrie expressed his feelings about the progression of his disease and his impending death. I connected most deeply with his idea that love "does not need speech or hearing". I think we often forget that so much can be communicated without the use of words. Looking deeply into someone's eyes, touching their hand, giving them a warm smile - these small actions can mean so much. I also connected with his sentiment that tears do not weaken a person. Tears are a testament of strength. To feel deeply is to truly live and Morrie is using this notion to make the very most of the the time he has left.

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Alyssa Bennett                      In Morrie's second interview with Ted Koppel he expressed how he felt about his disease and how he is feeling about his death. I feel like Morrie did a great job on reflecting on his life and how he felt. He has a lot of emotion and all of that comes from wisdom. He isn't afraid to be emotional because he is human. He explains his life and how he is dealing with his situation at the moment and I think it is amazing how he is handling this. One idea I could reflect on most was when he said that crying makes him stronger, he doesn't feel like it makes him weak. Crying isn't shameful. I can also relate to when he said that when he cries, he cries about a lot of things at once. I tend to do the same thing, because going through a lot, its easier than crying over every little thing that happens.        

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Alyssa Bennett                      In Morrie's second interview with Ted Koppel he expressed how he felt about his disease and how he is feeling about his death. I feel like Morrie did a great job on reflecting on his life and how he felt. He has a lot of emotion and all of that comes from wisdom. He isn't afraid to be emotional because he is human. He explains his life and how he is dealing with his situation at the moment and I think it is amazing how he is handling this. One idea I could reflect on most was when he said that crying makes him stronger, he doesn't feel like it makes him weak. Crying isn't shameful. I can also relate to when he said that when he cries, he cries about a lot of things at once. I tend to do the same thing, because going through a lot, its easier than crying over every little thing that happens.        

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