Everything is Connected

    

                                                          Everything is Connected

  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 to me, at least that no matter what decisions you make, they will affect another person because we are all intertwined. This is shown many times in the book. When the Captain shot Eddie, it saved Eddie’s life, but it also altered Eddie’s life forever by ruining his leg. Another example of the interconnectedness of decisions is at the point when Eddie runs out and grabs the baseball from the street; it cost the blue man his life. When Eddie took his Dad’s job he inadvertently saved thousands of lives.  Your decisions affect others directly or indirectly. When the teenagers got drunk and were dropping bottles off the bridge, they directly affected Eddie’s wife. They also indirectly affected Eddie himself. We are all connected through our decisions.

 However, those were just examples from the book. There are several examples in real life too. In fact, I just recently went to New Orleans and saw Rob Bell speak about how everything is connected. He spoke about how since the beginning of time everything and everyone is connected. In my opinion, it was a very interesting and very true view point. An example of this interconnectedness can be seen in a group of birds flying in a “V” formation. One bird decides to turn, and all the other birds would follow subconsciously. There isn’t a single bird giving directions. They are all, on a fundamental, level connected. This fact is amazing on multiple levels, and shows how deeply connected everything is. If birds can understand each other like this then imagine how deeply humans could be connected or how connected we already are.