No Accidents

            “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” explains that when you die, you go to heaven and meet five people. Each of those people teach you a lesson. In the book, the main character, Eddie, is taught a lesson from each of his five people. His first person tells him, “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 means that every action happens for a reason, and that what happens to you affects everyone, because everyone is connected.

            First, “That there are no random acts,” means that every action happens for a reason. “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” states,” ‘What good came from your death?’ ‘You lived.’” The passage also states, “‘When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows.’” It wasn’t random that the guy died. He died so Eddie could live.

            Next, “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 that what happens to you affects everyone, because everyone is connected. The story states, “’ Some did not even know me well, yet they came…It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect.’” The story also states, “’ that death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.’” The people felt like they needed to go to the funeral, because they know they are all connected. It could have been them that died.