The Reason for These Things

             "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." To me, this means that everyone’s life is connected in some way. Every experience you have with a person is nothing of a random act. Whether you smiled at stranger or spent a whole day with your grandparents, it all happened for a reason. That one little action you may have done can resulted in someone else doing that same action and the cycle continues. This illustration can be compared to a chain reaction. Because you did one thing it caused for other things to happen.

              We can find this quote in the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, when the Blue Man brings back to Eddie’s mind a childhood memory of an encounter with each other; Eddie runs out into the street to get his ball, when the Blue Man is driving and almost hits Eddie. One thing Eddie didn’t realize is that this impacted the Blue Man’s life incredibly. It resulted in the loss of his life. This just comes to show that lives are connected. Some connections result in happy endings and others in tragic endings, like this one.
               To me, this quote also means that everything you do has a reason and that all things happen for a reason. For example, maybe that party you wanted to go to but couldn’t because you were stuck in doing homework, happened for the better and for a specific reason. God always has a plan and makes things happened for his reason. You may not think much of these little actions, but behind each and every one is a surprise that we aren’t aware of.