Camp United

      As humans we are all connected. Every action you do affects another person in some way. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven the Blue Man says, "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."
     One thing this quote means is that we are all connected in our actions. We can affect people with everything we do. We may not even know that we played a part in a persons life with our actions, but we did. Also, this quote means that none of our acts are random, so we have to be careful of what we do. We must think about our decisions and how they could not only affect us, but the people we come in contact with.
    I recently attended my church's summer camp which was called Camp United. Every person who was there worshipped differently. The speakers all preached in a different way. Although you may look at all of the over two hundred people there as completely different and unconnected, we were all there for the sole purpose of worshipping God. That is how we were all connected and had a large impact on each other.
    In The Five People You Meet in Heaven people crossed paths for reasons unknown to them at the time. In the story Eddie crosses paths with the Blue Man and indirectly causes him to die. Eddie did not know why he had crossed paths with him until he got to Heaven. When I was at Camp United I had the unfortunate accident of dislocating my left knee cap. It was very painful and I had to go to the hospital. As I was riding in the ambulance one counselor was in the ambulance with me and one counselor was following behind it. Both of them were friends with my mom when she was my age. All of us never knew that my mom's childhood friends would be helping me in such a difficult time when my mom could not be there. These two people may have crossed paths with my mom just so they could help me, and we may not have known it until this day.
    Every day we have an impact on the people around us and may not even know it. There is no possible way to separate one life from another. Sometimes we might even cross paths with people for reasons unknown to both of us. From ambulance rides, to a blue man saving your life, to childhood friends, we are all connected, and that can never change.