The pressure to perform is overwhelming, Morrie said. It pushes them to go it alone. That was a question that Morrie was happy to wrestle with. Happiness, he said, comes from figuring out what gives your life purpose and then devoting yourself with passion to that purpose. For Morrie, that defining passion was teaching.
Happiness comes from opening up to people, emotions, and experiences.
For Morrie, the key experience was dancing, always dancing. But happiness also comes from knowing and accepting your limitations and imperfections. For Morrie, the key limitation was his body, which grew weaker as ALS limited his ability to walk, to feed himself, to breathe freely. Laugh at yourself, Morrie urged. Forgive yourself for not doing the things that you should have done.