The Connection Between us

  “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 our lives are all somehow connected, and that the decisions we make today can have an affect on our lives as well as the lives of others. In the story, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, by Mitch Albom, a man named Eddie meets the five people who had the biggest impact on his life and learns an important lesson from each of them.
  The first person Eddie meets in heaven is the blue man. When Eddie was a child, he was playing baseball with his friends and the ball rolled out into the street. As Eddie went after it, he caused the truck that was coming down the street to swerve and barely miss hitting him. The Blue man, who was driving the truck, crashes into a parked car and dies. It was because of Eddies decision to chase after the ball that he crashed his truck and died. The blue man teaches Eddie that all lives are connected and that your decisions can have an effect on other people.
  Eddie also meets an old woman named Ruby, even though Eddie never met her, she still had a big impact on his life. Ruby’s husband was the man who built the original Ruby Pier. This was where Eddie grew up, worked, and died. If the pier was never built, Eddie wouldn’t have worked there, and he wouldn’t have died from the roller coaster accident that happened at the pier.
  After reading this story, I have learned that the decisions we make can affect other peoples lives, and that all of our lives are connected in some way.