The Affects of Life

     Decisions made today will somehow change the lives of others tomorrow. Each and every decision you make can change the lives of others around you. Every choice has an impact. It may be big or small but, it affects life. Any person can affect you or the people around you. We may have different paths but everyone is connected in some way. In the novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", the first person Eddie meets is the Blue Man. His name is Joseph Corvelzchik and he died saving Eddie's life. He shows Eddie how one little thing can change somebody's life.
     During their visit Joseph states, "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." When the Blue Man explains his death, disappointment is Eddie's first reaction. He realizes that the Blue Man died after their short encounter on Earth. Although Eddie never met the Blue Man, he forever changed his life with a very small connection.
      Joseph goes on to explain how no act is random and that everyone is connected. Eddie's choice to run out in the street to retrieve a ball ultimately cost the Blue Man his life. Yet the Blue Man's choice to prevent hitting a boy in the street saved Eddie's . "We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole." Every decision we make affects life in some way. Decisions made today will somehow change the lives of others tomorrow.