Abdullah’s Reviews > Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson > Status Update

“If you’re going to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will always look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

In the Fifth Tuesday, Morrie talks about family, his wife, and his children.

Morrie tells us that “There is no experience like having children”.

When I read that I nodded and smiled in agreement. But moments later, Morrie struck me with a frightening fact; that there is a painful price to pay for having children, which is that, one day, you’ll leave them behind.

And now I’m scared and sad.

I’m caught!