We're All Connected

To me, the quote, "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind" means that God is always in control. So many times people think they are all alone in the world to succeed or fail in life. The Blue Man told Eddie that the human spirit knows, in some way, that all lives intersect. All the people we meet in life have a purpose in our life. We also have a purpose in their life. Remember, we are all connected. We may not know what the purpose is but God does and he knows what he is doing. Even if you bump into someone and tell them, "I'm so sorry, have a nice day." God planned for you to bump into that random person and say that. That person may have needed some encouragement that day. That stranger could think that what you did was thoughtful and could do it to someone else. It can cause a chain-reaction. Again, everyone is connected. There is always a balance between life or death and God is in control of that balance. An example is when a solider dies protecting our country so we can live in peace. As people die others are born. It is the way God made the world. Every one has a purpose whether large or small. No life is a waste and no one is alone. Even things that happen before we are born can still affect us and the people who come after us. This is shown in Eddie's heaven. His heaven is Ruby Pier filled with all the people born and unborn who were saved thanks to Eddie and the way he maintained the rides. Although he never felt important, he kept so many people safe and happy.

WE ARE ALL CONNECTED

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from a wind."

This statement didn't make sense to me at first. Finally, after thinking, I got it. To me this statement is saying that no matter how close or how far away you are to someone, you are connected to them. It is saying that there are no accidents in life. Everyone you see in life has an effect on you, and you have an effect on them. God only knows when it is your time to go. Like when the Blue Man almost hit Eddie in the car, it didn't hit Eddie because it wasn't his time to go. It was the Blue Man's time to go. Eddie never knew that he caused the death of the Blue Man. Just like we don't know how we effect the people we see every day in our life. This was the most important lesson that I learned from The Five People You Meet In Heaven. It is an incredible lesson to learn.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven Assignment #1

The quote "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind," to me means that, even though we don't realize it, we have an impact on the lives of everyone we come across. One of our little accidents could cause someone around us their life. We need to be careful not to put those around us at risk.
I don't think anyone actually realizes the impact of their decisions until they see a drastic result. We can't expect there to be no consequences from the decisions we make even if it's a simple decision. There is a price on every decision that is made by anyone, and not just for those they know. The biggest impact could be on someone that they never knew. This quote should have everyone that reads it thinking back to a dangerous decision. Like running into the middle of the street chasing a baseball perhaps? Try not to let one of your decisions be someones last moment.

tomorrow is a mystery

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from a wind."





I believe this quote is saying that the small things like stopping to tell someone hey or seeing a cute store on your way out the mall can make you miss a speeding car or a texting driver by a few minutes and that's the things that counts. Also I think it's saying that even though we may not know it we make an impact on everyone we knows life. As an example Taylor Swift was picked on as a kid and teenager although it seemed bad for her then it gave her time to practice guitar and singing. It also gave her time to write songs. Now all the songs about guys she never got to date and the mean girls who picked on her made her famous and gave her number one hits. So even though the kids seemed mean then they are the the reason she had enough time for her music. Even though the boys seemed rude for never asking her to dances they are the inspiration for songs. The mean kids also made her tougher for when people don't like her as a singer so she could deal with it better. So just because something seems bad at the time it may make out to be helpful in the long run. It also says no matter how hard you try were going to be intertwined and have an effect on other peoples lives. Lifes like a movie and you can make other people have a comedy just like how they can make you have a drama. Everyone is intertwined to each other sometimes with out even noticing it.

Connected?!

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

This phrase in the novel probably has the greatest impact more than anything else in the novel "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." The phrase pretty much sums up the book, and it made me think. First off it gets you to thinking "Well, what does this mean?" When finishing up the book I found my answer. To me this phrase means that all the decisions we make in life lead us to our final destination. There are never mistakes or regrets, but different roads I chose to take to reach my ultimate destination. I also feel it means that the people in my life are not here on accident. The people in my life were sent to make all of our journeys better. I am here to be part of their lives and them mine. Even the people I do not really meet, but encounter. They are all here to shape me and who I become. So, the choices we make and the people in our lives are not here on accident, but to complete our journey and we can not change that. We have to just accept we are all part of one another. Then the phrase had me thinking,"Who have I been connected to, and I did not even know?" Well, looks like I will find out one day!

A Purpose for Everything

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

I feel the prompt illustrates how everything in life happens for a reason. Every decision and action we make has a purpose. Although we may not know it when we make a decision, it doesn't only affect ourselves. We affect people and are affected by people as well. If one of the smallest characters in your life did not exist, it could affect you in the biggest way. You may or may not discover in Heaven how some of the simple decisions you make everyday can affect a stranger in your life. For example, in the novel, The Five People you meet in Heaven, the character, Ruby, decides to work as a waitress. If it weren't for her simple decision, Eddie would have never had the job he had at Ruby Pier; therefore, the accident causing his death would have never occurred. Ruby met Emile while working, which led to their marriage. Their marriage later concluded to Emile building the amusement park, Ruby Pier, for Ruby. Even though this occurred before Eddie's time, and Eddie had never met Ruby, it still affected him majorly. The decisions we make connect us to others just as we are connected to others by their decisions.

We are all Connected

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more seperate one life from another than you can seperatea breeze from a wind."
What this prompt means to me is that everything that goes on in this world is planned out nothing is random.The first section of the prompt says "There are no random acts." This says exactly that any acts ingaged on earth are planned out. This isn't really saying that if you say something while having a conversation with someone and you say something that has no translation with what the convorsation is about that it isnt random because that is. But if someone where to rob a store than that kind of act would not be random because the criminal planned it wasn't a random act. So there for no act is random.
The second section of the prompt is saying that life is life weather or not you r good or evil justs like a breeze and wind are both forces of air moving at a rate of speed they are both still air. If you where to put ones life next to another and say you killed someone and that the other person didn't they would still have a life.
So what this prompt means to me is that no matter what acts humans or nature cause they are not random. Also that life is life, and that just as a wind is a breeze, and a breeze is a wind.

Intertwined

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
This quote bombards my mind with ideas every time I read it. This quote is worded so that the reader, when pondering its meaning, is at a loss for words. This quote is so brilliantly crafted that it paints a picture in its reader's mind. It has been said that a picture's worth a thousand words, and each reader has their own picture and therefore their own interpretation. Well, these are just a few of my thousand words.
To me, this quote is a way of explaining life. This quote is saying that everything happens for a reason; that there are no accidents. It means that even though your circumstances may put you at a disadvantage, there will always be a reason for why they are the way they are. Your circumstances may not be for your benefit or even have relevancy with your purpose, but because we are all intertwined, our circumstances have purpose with someone's path and journey, even when we do not know who.
This quote was the motto for the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The entire story revolved around its meaning. This quote has such a deep and powerful meaning that it has given me this picture. Even when life is unfair, vague, and without an explanation, we must remember that there are reasons; everything will come together in the end. Every little thing that happens has meaning and momentum behind it. Each of us are a fragment of a whole, one weave in a basket, a single tear in the sea. We are all intertwined.

This quote has been said a lot in many people's lives, but some fail to understand. It comes across people in different ways depending on their situation. For example, Eddie didn't really know the Blue Man in person. He just influenced his life in a way he couldn't understabd at the time. To me, this quote means everything that happens in your life happens because you either hurt some one or you helped some one. Either way you influenced their life in a positive or negative way. We have done things in people's lives that we don't even know. Like all the people we've killed overseas. Their families have suffered just like ours have. God has a life planned out for everyone. He might place little bumps in the road, but its nothing He doesn't think you can handle. Tornadoes and natural disasters don't just come because the wind picks up or the fish move faster. They come because God wants to make a difference in some one's life. He wants to prove that He can help you survive in your rough times. Everything happens fora reason, good or bad, but its not at a random pick!

Random Connections

Blog Assignment #1

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more seperate one life from another than you can seperate a breeze from the wind."

To me, this means that all things happen for a reason. All things that happen in your life occur for a reason. For God placed everything in our life for a reason, because if there wasn't a reason behind our actions what would be the point of living? Like the tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri, what was God's plan for that town? Hypothetically, God's plan was for the lost people to become found again. Not only did it change a town, it changed an entire nation. So first, it changed a town by reuniting lost neighbors with each other. Second, it united a nation by drawing people in for one cause, connecting them together as one greater than one connecting by himself.

The connection of that tornado, tearing through Joplin, Missouri, in theory, was a butterfly in Northeastern Brazil. The butterfly flapped its wings, at a precise moment, which created a slight breeze that was enough to offset a weather pattern. So, instead of a nice spring day in Joplin, Missouri, this slight breeze shifted a pressure system enough to create a thunderstorm, that would in turn, create the devastating tornado that had a reason by God, to destroy Joplin enough to change not only a town, but a nation.

The connection between a butterfly in Northeastern Brazil and a small town named Joplin, Missouri, is the tragic tornado that was created by the wind disturbance of a butterfly flapping its wings. So through God's eyes, no act is ever random, but in turn it is always connected in the weirdest of ways.

No Acts Are Random

This prompt implies that everything happpens for a reason. Bad things may happen in your life but good things could possibly come out of it if you have a good outlook on life. Everyone's life is meaningful and has a purpose. Everything that you do has a purpose whether large or small. People and their actions are connected in ways that we will never know. These connections could involve family, close friends, or even complete strangers. Your actions may result in a chain reaction that affects others and these events cannnot be erased in history once they occur. The events may result in lives being changed forever and cannot be separated from those affected. Also, I believe that some things and some people belong together. You cannot separate something that is meant to be. In my opinion, God places certain people in our lives at specific times all for a purpose. Just like Eddie, we may not always understand these purposes until later.

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I Suspected We Were Connected

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more seperate one life from another than you can seperate a breeze from the wind."

Have you ever wondered why something happens? Just imagine this: It's Saturday night, and you're going to dinner with your friends. You're already running late because you spilt grape juice all over your outfit. That already has you flustered. To make it worse, you're on your way to the restaurant and your mom has to stop for gas. You think, can this night get any worse? As a result of those two things, you get to the restaurant fifteen minutes late.

Little did you know, if you would have left your house on time, a drunk driver would have been speeding toward you the moment you were turning into the parking lot. They would have collided into the passenger side of the car (your side), and you would have had to be rushed to the emergency room. The doctors wouldn't have been able to save you and you would've died.

Which option would you prefer?

To me, this quote means that everything happens for a reason. As shown in the example above, the reason you spilt grapejuice on your shirt, and the reason you had to stop for gas is because it was simply not your time to die yet.

All in all, no act is mundane. Every choice you make, every word you speak, effects the world in one way or another.

Blog Assignment #1

     "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another, than you can separate a breeze from the wind," is one of the most important, and eye opening quotes in the book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. This quote means that all lives, whether unknown, or obvious, are all connected to each other. "That there are no random acts," means that everything we do or say, is for a reason. When you make a mistake, even though you didn't mean to, it was made for a reason, it could mean the life or death of another person. Like one of the mistakes Eddie made, as a child he ran into the middle of the street, to retrieve a ball in on coming traffic, the Blue Man swerves just before he could hit young Eddie, but because of it, he dies. Eddie doesn't realize his mistake at the time, and doesn't know the severity of it, but his mistake was made for a reason. It was the Blue Man's time to go. "That you can no more separate one life from another, than you can separate a breeze from the wind," means that there's not one person who can be completely unaffected, or separate, from another, kind of how a breeze is part of the wind, nearly impossible to differentiate between the two. All of our actions, mistakes included, whether good or bad, affect someone, somewhere, either negatively or positively.
     For example, say you are strolling along in the city, and you come across a family of two, a mother and her young daughter, and they are begging for money. You aren't sure if they are really hungry, or if the mother just wants money for drugs, so you just walk past them, not very concerned for their well-being. You go home, the homeless family already out of your mind. The next day however, while you are home healthy and happy, that mother and daughter you saw, and forgot about, is dead. They are dead because of your mistake; you decided not to give them money even though you could have easily spared it. That girl, who could have became your doctor, your lawyer, or our president, is now dead because of you, along with the opportunity of a better future. This story really opened my eyes and helped me learn how to see the bigger picture. Now I know to think twice before doing something. Maybe if everyone would stop and think to themselves, "If I do this, how could it affect some one else?" then maybe our world could become a better and safer place.

Blog Assignment #1

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." This quote really got me thinking. To explain no random acts I can basically say that everything happens for a reason. Everyone is connected in some shape or form, big or small, important or not so much. Everyone's life is intertwined. For every small act I do, it can be a huge part of someone else life. Just as the breeze is to the wind, two lives can be influenced equally. Any persons life can play a part in another, even when you don't know it. For example, if I were to help an old women with bags at a supermarket and a stranger sees me it could influence them to be and act as a better person. I believe everything that goes on in life is preplanned by a higher authority. God puts people in your life for them to teach you or for you to teach them something. This quote was very eye opening to me and I hope this can help more people like it helped me.

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To me, the statement means that everything happens for a reason. Something good happening to you can be linked to a terrible day someone else is experiencing Let's say you're at an arcade and your playing a game and you lose, but you get 150 tickets. The situation has now turned in your favor and you finally have enough tickets for the grand prize. You think everything is going well. What you don't see is the mechanic who has been trying to fix the faulty machine,with no luck, is now being fired because the owner feels that the problem was caused by the unlucky mechanic. Your ticket luck is now directly associated with the mechanic,who was having financial trouble, being laid off.
Sometimes you have no idea about how your actions indirectly affect other people. You just have to think about the big picture and how doing one thing may affect 15 people that you don't even know. The Blue Man opened my eyes on this fact. When young Eddie ran in front of The Blue Man's car, he had no idea of what he would soon cause. The fact that we are all connected was one of the biggest things I learned from the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It is truly a life lesson.

There Are No Random Acts

I think that the quote, "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can a breeze from the wind," means that every act we do affects someone at some point in their lifetime. These acts can be big or small, good or bad, but they all have one thing in common, and that is that they make a change. To me, if all acts change someone, and all acts start with the choice to do or not to do it, then you need to think before you make a decision because once you make it there is no turning back. You may not realize that you could have already impacted somebody. You might not know it, but everybody has someone who looks up to them for some reason and if you make a wrong choice they may choose to do wrong also, setting a chain reaction. So, when you are faced with a choice, think to yourself, "What kind of impact will this make on me or someone else?"
This quote also means to me that everything happens for a reason, and that there are no mistakes. If you stop and think about it, you will see that this is so true. I have learned this through personal experience. One day I missed the bus and my mom had just left to go to work, so I called her to come back and pick me up to bring me to school. On the way there, we were in a car accident. Now there are many reasons one might think that this happened, and some might even say "Why did this happen to me?" But I thought of it as, "This happened to me for one of two reasons; one, to save someone else from being in an accident, and two, as an eye opener that I could have died and need to think if I need to change the way I am living." Either way I looked at it, I knew that it happened for a reason, and not by mistake. It is just like in the quote, you can't separate one breeze from all the breezes in a gust of wind just like you can't separate one person from another.

There Are No Random Acts

The quote "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind," from The Five People You Meet in Heaven means a few things to me. The main thing I think it is saying is that everything happens for a reason. The events that happen around us do not just happen by chance. Our actions affect people around us all the time causing different things to happen. The affects we have on others don't have to be big, but can also be small. Many people without knowing it affect us each day either mentally or physically. This causes us to do or say certain things, which will in return affect others as well. For example different organizations are started because the people that founded them are affected by others to the point where they want to do something about it, such as organizations that help people in Africa . We affect each other all the time causing all these different things to happen. We are connected in so many ways that you can't separate us. Just like a breeze is just a small part of the wind, when you put a lot of breezes together you can't tell the two apart because they are basically the same. So what I do, you do, and everyone else does comes together to make and change what happens around us, making us one whole where you can't separate us. So overall this quote is saying that nothing happens randomly, but by how we affect others and how we are all connected causes things to happen for a reason.

Are we all connected?

I agree with the statement "that there are no random acts. That we are all connected..." because I have a personal example that happened just recently. I was accepted into the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) summer program for musical theater. A few weeks later, I was also cast in the musical Singin' in the Rain. One day at a Singin' in the Rain rehearsal, I said that I was going to NOCCA the next week, and the lead girl in the play said that she went to NOCCA for high school. She is an amazing dancer and gave me some pointers before I went. If I hadn't said that I was going to NOCCA, then we would probably never have talked and become as close as we are now. For me, the statement "everything happens for a reason" is very true. Unfortunately we don't always have such an obvious example given to us. Eddie lived his life, day in and day out, doing his job at Ruby Pier. He fixed belts, checked rides, and made children smile with his pipe cleaner animals. He went through life doing what he thought needed to be done. His daily connections to people were just people he saw at the Pier -no one significant. It wasn't until he went to heaven that he realized what an impact he had on them and they had on him. It may have made his life more special if he knew that we are all connected "like the breeze is to the wind".

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"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
This writing prompt means that everything in the world happens for a reason. What it means to me is that any action can change someones life. The action can be as little as running into someone one morning on the way to work or finding a nickle on the ground. I believe everything you say or do has an impact on your life but also others. Our lives our a set path that will lead us to the end. Our life is controlled and we cannot change our destany. We are all connected by just a quick glance at someone. The breeze is apart of the wind just as you are apart of someones life. How is the life you have right now and how did it become your life? Your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and the people you were surrounded with growing up as a child has created an impact on your life. If my parents raised me in a different part of the world and I moved to America I would have different ways, manners, and cultural events. However you are raised sets who you are for your life.
Eddie spent his last hour of his life at Ruby Pier because the pier has made an impact on his life. Throughout the story he is wondering why he is still at the pier. Eddie soon begins to learn that there are no random acts in life. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

A Chain Reaction

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
This fantastic prompt was said by the Blue Man in The Five People You Meet in Heaven. He makes a very valid point. One little action causes a chain reaction. For example, if someone you may or may not know takes your favorite seat in class wouldn't you be upset? Maybe you find a five dollar bill and you keep it, but what you don't know is someone in your school has been looking for it. They needed it for their lunch. You never meant to cost a person a meal. It was simply a coquincedence most people would say. The truth is it happened for a reason. My view is the same as the Blue Man's. There are many examples in the world today that can support this saying. Everything happens for a reason. It's just a way of life.

No Random Acts

"There are no random acts." This means to me that everything happens for a reason. Whether for good or for bad, everything in life happens with a purpose. You may not realize it right away, but everything that happens happens for a reason. "You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." This also means that everything is connected. Everybody affects each other. You may not know it at the time but you affect the people around you and they affect you without knowing it. You can't separate one life from another because everybody who sees you or who you come in contact with is affected by you in some way. "You can't separate a breeze from the wind, nor can you separate one life from another". This saying can be confusing because a breeze is the wind. But what it's saying is that one person is part of the society around them. Everybody comes into contact with the people around them, whether it's at the grocercy store or a ball park, you see them around every now and then. And they see you. Someone is always watching you. I believe that this saying is true, that there are no random acts and that everything is connected.

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     Do you ever wonder why you are where you are, why you act or speak a certain way? Eddie said it the best when he said, "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." This quote may confuse some. So in simplest terms when Eddie says there are no random acts basically, he means everything happens for a reason. I believe every person you come in contact with leaves a piece of themselves with you. When trying to do the impossible like separate a life from another and the breeze from the wind, you can't, because everybody places some sort of role in the life of another, no matter how big or small. Just as the breeze is part of the wind a total stranger can be vital in your own life, they can teach you a lesson or you can teach them one without even knowing it. When experiencing these commonly called "life lessons" one may instantly be aware of their value, while at other times it can take a life time to fully realize their importance. To some, what can be so small and minor , others could think the world of it , it could be an eye opening experience. In life there is a time and place for everything, it could come when you least expect it or you could see it coming from a mile away. Eddie was a humble, modest man, not knowing the importance his presence was making on those around him. Overall, in life there are trials, tribulations, good times and bad, but no matter what's going on it is planned out by a higher power.