Life is Connected

Sean Elsea

Mrs. Dupuy

Honors English 9th

Life is Connected

Life is one large connection of events and people that lead to where you are today. People sometimes can affect someone else that can affect them for the rest of their lives, even if they didn’t mean it.

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,” takes my thoughts to unfamiliar depths of perception. This makes me think of a web that connects everyone and all acts to each other. It makes me feel like  whatever happens to me is intended, even if it is losing a game against a friend or being late for a class. I feel like I don’t have much control over how I will die or how my life has came to this moment, and that everything, even signing up for this class, is made to affect my life in the long run.

A life could be spared by a faulty clock, making somebody late for a plane they need to catch, which crashes later and no one survives, making them seemingly chosen to survive. The quote makes me feel obliged to talk to people and get to know them and try helping them improve the “web of life” and cheer up people around them. I feel that people you get to know are also a large connection of the web of life making some bonds stronger than others. You may wish to flee from certain people, but if you know them, they can stick with you in your head, and removing them entirely is impossible -  “That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” However, the people around me have taught me some of the most useful lessons of my life. They have shown me how the world is connected, even through life or death, and how people are connected to us and around the world. In the end, the quote makes me feel further connected to the people around me, and it makes me wonder how my life will turn out.