Morrie speaks these words to his group of students in a flashback throughout the second Tuesday. He had his class perform a confidence fall exercise, in which students examine each other's confidence and trustworthiness by performing confidence falls; a student will fall straight backwards and have to rely on another student to grab them. No student trusts another until a young woman falls without flinching. Morrie observes that the girl had closed her eyes and says that this exercise serves as a metaphor for the secret of trust in relationships; an individual must sometimes trust blindly, simply relying on what they feel to guide them in their decision making. He uses this exercise to teach his students that trustworthiness is a characteristic shared by two people in a partnership and that each individual takes a risk by trusting the other. This uncertainty, however, is a risk that people should take. Morrie teaches his students that trust is blind; one can simply judge whether or not to trust another person based on a natural feeling, not because of it....