When my Religion teacher told me to read it, I figured, yea, whatever, textbook. Not at all. This story is absolutely marvellous. You have to read it to understand how saddening, and uplifitin all at once that it can be. It's just so intense and Morrie's views are so inspirarional that by the end I was crying on the train home, when I finished it. I didn't care. It touches on the most important thing in the world: compassion.