The Importance of All Life

Do you ever feel like you do not matter? That if you no longer existed the world would continue as if you never left? Be happy to know that this is all in your head, because a quote from Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven proves this idea wrong: “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 means that everyone is important. Even if you feel that you are useless in this world, many could not go on without you. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven the main character, Eddie, dies believing that he led a life full of nothing. Eddie meets five people in Heaven that teach him five lessons, all important in their own way but all connecting to one conclusion: that all life is connected. “One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.”, as The Blue Man would say. This means that the life Eddie led and ended was necessary for someone else’s life to begin, which means that Eddie’s life was important even though he did not believe it was. 

“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 symbolizes the importance of every person’s life on Earth. If one life does not end, another life will not begin. If one life does not begin, another life will not end. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Eddie believed that he was not important. He thought that because he was a maintenance man that he was useless and that he really wasn’t helpful to his community. Eddie was wrong. The meaning of Eddie’s life was to help protect the people in a simple, but surefire way. If Eddie had not existed, many rides at Ruby Pier may have been dangerous and broken, leading to the end of many lives. Eddie’s life was important because it led to the whole of many other lives put together, and the beginning of more.

In my life the quote “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.” means that even though I may lead a life different from everyone else, I can know that I am on the right track and that I'm important in my own special way. This quote is not only great to pull The Five People You Meet in Heaven together, but also to pull together the life of any person willing to understand that they are important and useful to this world.