“You know, Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people．I’m on the last great journey here—and people want me to tell them what to pack．”

　　The phone rang again．

　　“Morrie，can you talk?”Connie asked.

　　“I’m visiting with my old friend now，”he announced．“Let them call back．”

　　I cannot tell you why he received me so warmly. I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier．Had it not been for“Nightline，”Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again．

　　What happened to me?

　　The eighties happened. The nineties happened．Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.

　　“Have you found someone to share your heart with?” he asked.

　　“Are you at peace with yourself?”

　　“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

　　I felt ashamed, wanting to show I had been trying hard to work out such questions．What happened to me? I once promised myself I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, and that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places．

　　Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years, at the same workplace，using the same bank, visiting the same barber I was thirty-seven，more mature than in college，tied to computers and modems and cell phones. I was no longer young, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. I did not have long discussions over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life．

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