No Random Acts

           The quote, "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 that each life is connected, each life can impact another without even realizing that it is happening, and each life is significant. 

           Each life is connected because all lives mean something to another whether it be family, friends, or strangers. A friendly stranger may help grab something off a shelf or help you cross the street. In The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Eddie learns that his life was connected to Marguerite's even though she had passed away years ago. He learns that his life is linked with Marguerite's because he loved her.

          Each life impacts another unknowingly by simply existing. The stranger that helped you across the street could have saved you from getting hit and killed or hit and injured just by helping you. Eddie was the cause of the blue man's death and he did not even know it. He ran out infront of his truck causing him to swerve and shock him. The adrenaline from this fiasco caused him to hit a parked car and crash resulting in his final breath. Eddie understood that if he had looked where he was running to he may have prevented an early death.

          Each life is significant due to the phrase we are all connected. A mother may not serve a purpose to a stranger but serves a purpose to her child. The child relies on her for its needs. Eddie, throughout each lesson, begins to understand his meaning and how he prevented a little girl from dying early. Nick, the boy who just got the keys to his car, lost his key in the wires of a drop ride causing it to crash down resulting in Eddie's death. Nick's life played a significant role in Eddie's death with one small slip up. 

       The quote represents all life. A breeze can not be separated from a wind because a breeze causes a wind to flourish and spread. One life can help another whether it be bringing another one or saving another one.  

       

  

Choices

     In the novel," The Five People You Meet in Heaven", the main character, Eddie, meets people who have had a purpose in his life. One of the people Eddie meets is Joseph or the Blue Man. The Blue Man tells Eddie," That there are no random acts. That we are all connected.. That you can no more separate the breeze from the wind." The choices you make and the acts you do all affect someone else's life. Every life has a purpose, every choice has a consequence. Whether it is intentional or not, your actions can come with good or bad effects. Like the story states," Please mister..." Eddie pleaded." I DIDN'T know." The Blue Man nodded." You couldn't know. You were too young." Eddie ran into the road to get his ball which caused the Blue Man to swerve and later have a heart attack. Eddie never knew he contributed to why the man had died. Also, he did not know that the Blue Man's family and friends would also be affected by one simple act. Choices that are made can cause a lot of lives to be altered and changed. Good or bad, the choices, acts, and decisions you make are not coincidences. They are not just your past, but also your future.

The Point of It

In the narrative, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," the main character, Eddie, meets five people whom teach him a lesson. His first lesson is taught by Joseph Corvelzchik, also referred to as the "Blue Man". The lesson is "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." Joseph wants Eddie to think that all life is precious. The point of it to me is that this would mean that no matter what your skin color, age, race, or sins are, God still accepts you. This also means to me that everyone should accept each other. In the story, when Eddie is young, he and his brother, Joe, lose their ball in the street. Everyone knows that a child's first instinct in a situation like that is to chase it. Joseph, however was coming right towards the ball in his car. Joseph must swerve out of the way to avoid hitting Eddie. While Eddie is perfectly ok, Joseph crashes his car and loses his life for Eddie. When Eddie hears of this in heaven, He asks Joseph, "Why should you have to die on a account of me? It ain't fair." Joseph explains to Eddie that, "Fairness, does not govern our life and death. If it did, no good person would die young." Eddie didn't understand that even though Joseph lost his life, he did it to save Eddie.  Eddie believes his life is waste when Joseph does not answer his question about the little girl involved with the accident. Joseph replies," No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."  All life is precious and is worth saving. All lives matter.

Chain Reaction

     In "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom each person Eddie met taught him a lesson. Eddie was told by the first person he met, Joseph Corvelzchik, "That there were 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 all of our lives are somewhat connected. Your actions can have an effect on anyone at any time and they may not all be positive effects. For instance, when Eddie was a little boy he and his buddies were throwing a baseball and it accidentally rolled out in front of Joseph's car. Like every other little kid, Eddie’s first instinct was to chase after it, which caused Joseph to swerve so he wouldn't hit Eddie. Not long after, Joseph was still affected and thinking of how close he came to tragedy. He began to feel dizzy and his eyes left the road for one spilt second and then next thing you know Joseph was lying there, flipped over in his car with no one around to call for help. Eddie would have never thought that what had happened earlier killed that man. It’s almost as if we are one big chain reaction. One person’s action effects another, then that person effects someone else’s life and so on. With this being said, every life has a meaning and every action happens for a reason. We are all connected to each other. 

Every Life Has a Purpose

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom the Blue Man states “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 opens with “That there are no random acts.” This means that everything in someone’s life is meaningful. Nothing is a coincidence or luck. The second part of this quote says “That we are all connected.” This means that our lives connect like chains and each decision we make effects another life. Take the Blue Man for instance. When Eddie as a young boy runs in front of the Blue Man’s car it causes him to swerve and die. “That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind,” is the ending of the quote. This is expressing that people are bonded together like knots and not one person can undo an action. Everything that you do effects someone even without knowing it. Ruby, a woman Eddie never met before, impacted Eddie’s life by building the pier where him and his father would grow up, work, and eventually die. The smallest choices such as Eddie running into the street or a larger choice like pushing a little girl out of danger effects not only his life but others too. Your everyday life is the same. Chances are, you have already domino effected someone’s life or someone may have changed your life without you even noticing. Just realize that every life has a purpose, and every action has a meaning.

The Bindings of Fate

“There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can separate one life from another no more than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” No matter how far we run or how hard we try to hide, there is no escaping the bindings fate uses to connect all of us. One encounter is all it takes to completely change a life. Everyone affects everyone. Fate ties people together whether they realize it or not.

In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven the main character Eddie finds Ruby, a woman whom he has never met and a woman who has never seen him. They are, however, tied to each other. Ruby’s husband built the park where Eddie and his father would work and where Eddie would inevitably die. Though Ruby and Eddie had never met or spoke, Ruby partook in actions that shaped Eddie’s life. Eddie meets his old captain and finds out the truth about how Eddie hurt his knee. The captain’s actions affected Eddie’s life. The blue man, who Eddie had never meet or seen or heard of, lost his life because young Eddie ran into the road. There were no random acts. Everything we do is connected to other people no matter what that action is. Our lives are as tangled together like the Gordian knot, impossible to untangle. Only when we die does the knot get cut.

You effect everyone you come into contact with. There is no way to stop it. The minute you meet someone, you start to affect them. Whether it’s the little word of encouragement or a small word that puts them down, it affects them. Once said, things cannot be taken back. Trying to take back your words is like trying to put all the tooth paste back in the tube after you squeeze it out. Impossible. One interaction is all it takes for fate to play her hand. The hand can lead you into a new friendship or relationship or it can lead to things that are not so wanted. No matter where we go or how we get there, there will be people we affect. We are all bound together, accidents do not exist, and everything is already planned for us. So this is where the quote leaves us. With an understanding that no matter how hard we fight, we are all bound together whether we realize it or not.