All connected. All affected

"There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."


To me this quote means exactly what it says: We are all connected. To me it could also mean that everything and everyone that comes into your life affects your life. Think about the life you have right now and how that came to be your life. The place you grow up and the parents you have affect your life. The things you have experienced or will come to experience will affect your life. If you didn't have the parents you have or if you didn't live where you live now your life would be different. You would probably grow to be an entirely different person. Lets say, for example, that when you were younger you moved and then had to go to a different school. That may have made you unhappy, but then you met someone who turned out to be your best friend later on in life. If you hadn't moved and gone to a different school, you may have never met your future best friend. Now, an example from the story would be the way Eddie's life turned out. Eddie basically grew up at Ruby Pier because he had to go to work with his father all during his childhood. That was part of his having the ability to take over his father's job. If Ruby Pier was never a part of his life, Eddie may have never gotten the job there, and he probably would have never died the way he did in the story. So you see, everything and everyone really can affect your life or be a part of someone else's life in some way. This shows that we really are all connected.