The Circle of Life

When reading, people tend to analyze and interpret things in a different way. In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, there was a statement made from the first person Eddie meets in heaven, The Blue Man. The Blue Man says to Eddie, “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.” To me, this quote simply means that everything a person does will somehow, in some way affect another person. Generally, this quote makes me feel that since I know that whatever I do will affect another person, it makes me want to do good so that nothing bad will fall upon someone else. In the novel it is brought to Eddie’s attention how what he did in his life had a significant impact on five other people. If it were not for Eddie who ran out into the street to get his ball, The Blue Man would not of had a heart attack and lost his life. Eddie also had an encounter where he put the life of a stranger before his own which caused him to lose his own life. These incidents showed Eddie how everyone is connected in one way or another.

There are absolutely no random acts in life. Think of it as when a frog jumps onto a log. A snake now sees his next meal, but then there’s a bird in a tree who thinks of the snake as his next meal. Of course there is a hunter who now sees the bird as his next meal, all because a frog jumped onto a log. Therefore, I believe that the moral of this prompt is to show that whatever you do will affect the next person and the next and the next and so on. Quite frankly it is just the circle of life.