米奇说:“这种文化不会鼓励您在要死之前考虑这样的事情。我们非常喜欢自负的事物,职业,家庭,有足够的钱,满足抵押贷款,获得新车,在散热器中断时修复了散热器 - 我们参与了数万亿个小动作,以继续前进。因此,我们不会养成站着回头看我们的生活的习惯,这是全部吗?这是我想要的吗?缺少东西吗?
(Mitch," he said, "the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up in egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?)
在“与莫里(Morrie)的星期二”中,作者米奇·阿尔伯(Mitch Albom)反映了社会经常对日常生活需求的人的方式。人们变得如此专注于自己的职业,财务责任和平凡的任务,以至于忽略了考虑其存在的更深层次的含义。这种干扰使他们无法退后一步,评估他们的生活和欲望,从而导致潜在的空虚感或意识到缺少某些东西。
莫里强调了暂停提出有关生活的重要问题而不是迷失琐事的重要性。他挑战了这样的观念,即实现仅来自物质上的成功或社会压力,敦促个人对自己真正想要的生活有更深刻的了解。这种对话鼓励读者面对不舒服的真理,并努力寻求更有意义,反思的存在。