Everyones Purpose

Everyone has a purpose in life. Have you ever stopped and thought what yours would be? No one may truly know an answer, but what we do know is that everyone is connected in some way or some how. In the book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, a man named Eddie dies at his work trying to save a little girl. He goes to heaven, but before reaching his destination, he meets five people, that each teach him a lesson about how everyone is connected and that there is a meaning for everything. In the book, Eddie first meets Joseph Corvelizchick, or as referred to as, “the Blue Man”. Although Eddie never met the Joseph Corelizchick, their lives were very connected.  A simple act of going to retrieve a ball, brought them together. The Blue Man’s lesson to Eddie was that there are no such things as random acts, that we are all connected, and that you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. What does this mean? It means that when you do something in life that seems like it was nothing, could actually effect someone’s life forever. Like in the book, it states,” Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily…. and the other badly,” says the Blue Man to Eddie. We constantly hear terms such as “Cause and Effect, “Karma”, and “What goes around, comes around”. Our lives circle around cause and effect.  It shows how when one thing happens, something else will come as the effect of it. Every decision or lack of decision we make has a consequence.  A consequence that not only impacts us but can impact other people. For example, the second person that Eddie meets is his military captain. The captain’s lesson was about sacrifice. As it states in the book,” Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else,” says the Captain. Eddie was willing to sacrifice his life to go after someone in the burning building, the Captain sacrifice his life later for Eddie.  Had the Captain not made the decision to shoot Eddie, then Eddie would not have been there to save the little girl at the pier.  The impact can be a person we never even met or even cause a ripple effect.  Had Eddie and the Captain not made the decision to burn the building, then Tala, the fifth person in the heaven he meets, would have not perished in the fire.  But had Tala not perished she would not be there to pull him to heaven. This is an example of how everyone is connected in life and our decisions and actions make us who we are.  Eddie felt that his life should have turned out to be greater than what it did and questioned what good came out of it. But after experiencing the five lessons in heaven he gained an understanding that what happened in his life was for a purpose. Eddie’s existence was about trying to keep people safe, which connected him to the people in the story.  There are no such things as random acts because everyone has a purpose in life that God gave them that somehow connects us all in some way.