The Five People You Meet in Heaven Blog Post

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

To me this quote is the view of fate and destiny as viewed by the author and many others.  This way of thinking suggests that we are set on a predefined path from birth to death. We don't know our paths and we cannot change them.  Everything we do is decided by fate, as is everything that happens to us.  There is no randomness in the things that happen. The fact that Mrs. Dupuy chose this book for our summer reading was not random, nor are the ways that it has affected us.

The quote mentions that we are all connected. This includes people who we do and don't know.  It's easy to see how some people have affected us, like our parents, friends, and other people we have formed relationships with.  Others are not so clear, like Eddie and the Blue Man's relationship.  Eddie's one action completely changed (and ended) the Blue Man's life.  Although it seemed they didn't have any connection what-so-ever, it is later revealed that Eddie attended his funeral, not even knowing that his actions killed the Blue Man.

The fact that we are all connected is unchangeable.  You can't alter your fate. You cannot be separated from the souls you are entwined with.  Whether you affect each other in good or bad ways, fate has put you together for a reason.  The reason may be unknown to you, but in the greater scheme of things it will all come together.

In conclusion, the random acts are not so random and with every thing we do another life is affected and put back onto the path that fate has set out for them.