Wednesday, July 20, 2016

A Room Full of People

     In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven the main character, Eddie, meets five people in heaven that teach him five different lessons about his life. One of the lessons Eddie learns 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." Ultimately this is stating that everyone you meet and everything you do in life has a purpose, nothing happens randomly. We are all connected and significant to others even if we do not know it. Eddie thought during his life he did not do or accomplish anything, but later on he realized his life was much more important than he thought.
     While in heaven, Eddie met people he knew and also people he had not met during his lifetime. Even though Eddie had not met these people, they still had a huge impact in his life. For example, Eddie was confused at first when he met his fifth person, Tala. As Eddie talked to her, he soon realized that she was the figure he had seen in the fire at the village during the war. She tells Eddie that his life was not lost or empty, that even though he did not save her from the fire, he saved every single child that went on the rides at the pier. Tala tells Eddie," You keep them safe. You make good for me," as a way to make him understand that his life and what he did in it was important. 
     Life is like a room full of people, some people you notice while others notice you. As you are standing in that room full of people, your life, the ones you don't care to look at can be the ones who only look at you. You may not know the people that impact your life the most. As the quote from the book says, " That there are no random acts," everything happens for a certain reason. Some people you know and some you don't are the reason your life is the way it is. 






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