Mrs. Dupuy's Reading Room

Every Action or Decision has Purpose Towards the Future

       Within each day, a person is often faced with decisions. Whether minor or major, the outcome of these decisions will determine many factors of the future. Each action has a reaction. In the book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the main character, Eddie, passes away. In attempts to save a small child from a falling cart in the amusement park he worked at for decades, an awful mistake occurred, causing his death. Based on this story, when you pass and go to Heaven, you meet five important figures in your lifetime. After arriving in Heaven, Eddie meets Joseph Corvelzichik, also known as The Blue Man.

     Even though he was never aware of it, The Blue Man played a huge role in Eddie’s life. Many years before his death, Eddie ran after a ball that had rolled onto the street. What he didn’t know was that The Blue Man, at that exact time, almost hit Eddie with his vehicle. Instead, The Blue Man swerved out of the way, saving him. A short time after that, The Blue Man’s weak heart could not handle the adrenaline he dealt with after the incident and died of a heart attack. Eddie was responsible for his death. This is an example of freewill and fate. It was freewill because Eddie had the free decision to take a risk and get his ball. It was fate because God planned that both people would cross paths in that time at that place.

 When Eddie was told the truth, he was distraught. That was then when The Blue Man told him this, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can a breeze from the wind.” This means that even sometimes when we believe that “…such things are random…there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.” When tragic events happen, it all comes down to the actions, decisions, and the freewill of some that lead up to the fate of others.