One's Fall Is Another's Gain

    In life, you meet new people, you lose old friends, but you also make a difference in everyone's life.  In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the Blue Man tells Eddie "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." From my perspective, this means that any action made by anyone affects another person. Take for instance, you are walking down the street and see a homeless person. You don't know if you should give the person money because you don't know if they are going use this money for good or for bad, but you decide to give him them the money. What you don't know, is that this person has been starving and your few dollars may be what they need to save their life. 

    Growing up a Christian, I've always been taught that although God has our life planned out for us, we still decide what is to come of our lives and others' lives by the decisions we make. Decisions in life are more important than we feel they are. A small mistake in a person's life could drastically alter someone else's life. I feel that cheating is a perfect example of this. Even though it may have been your mistake to cheat, you caused the both of you to make bad grades when the other person did nothing to deserve what happened. This novel has changed my opinion on the way we live our lives and the decisions we make. The book taught me that before I make decisions, I should carefully think them over.