Human Connection

     “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 from The Five People You Meet in Heaven means that every choice you make impacts someone else.  For example, in the story Eddie burned down a house because he resented his captor for making him a prisoner of war.  After he escaped, he wanted to prove he was not weak and he would fight back.  He met Tala in heaven, a little girl he killed in the house fire as a result of his anger.  His selfish and vengeful choice cost an innocent girl her life.  To further illustrate, if you run a red light you might cause a wreck in the intersection and alter someone’s life forever.  Before you make a rash choice you should think of the possible repercussions.  Eddie met Ruby in heaven and he was connected to her because the amusement park he grew up around and eventually worked at was named for her.  Eddie never met Ruby while they were alive but she impacted him because major events in his life happened at Ruby Pier.  This demonstrates how we can be connected to people we don’t even know.  In the early 20^th century polio was incurable.  Today you can be vaccinated so that you won’t catch it.  The inventor of the vaccine, Jonas Salk, has had a positive influence on your health, and he didn’t live in your lifetime.  You can have a positive or negative influence on people you have never met by the choices you make, so strive to be a positive influence daily.