No Random Acts

                What can you do to make someone’s day? It doesn’t even have to be someone you know. You could smile at a little girl walking down the street, and it could make her entire day because you don’t know how tough her life is at home. She’s lucky to get attention at home and happy that you smiled at her. She could be prompted to do the same exact thing. Be nice to somebody else just as you were in smiling at her. Then somebody else is nice because of that little girl, and so it continues. As you can see, there are no random acts. The book The Five People You Meet in Heaven says, “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.” In this scenario, you were meant to smile at that little girl. There are no random acts, and all acts affect almost everyone because we are all connected.

                “What goes around comes around.” Have you ever heard this saying? This is what I’m talking about. You smile at that little girl “What goes around comes around,” and now someone is returning the five dollars that fell out of your pocket. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven the main character Eddie was nice to a little girl and made a rabbit out of pipe cleaners for her. “What goes around comes around,” and,” That there are no random acts.” His fifth person he meets in heaven, the little girl, said that she pulled him into heaven to keep him safe.

                The fact that there are no random acts is what connects us all. In the book, if Ruby and her husband had decided to not build Ruby Pier, then Eddie wouldn’t have had a place to grow up and have a job. Except for his time during the war, Eddie spent his entire life at Ruby Pier. Also, Eddie had never met Ruby or her husband, yet they still had a major impact on Eddie’s life.

                In the movie Epic by DreamWorks, they say, ”Many leaves. One tree.” We are all individuals, yet connected by something much bigger than ourselves. This definitely relates to, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected.” When one leaf falls off the tree, it’s so that another leaf can thrive in its place. The book says, “We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows.” Because we are all connected, it is important that we “Think before we act.” If our actions can affect almost everyone, don’t you want to have a positive impact on this world? We are all connected by the not-so-random acts.