Life Changing Decisions

Life Changing Decisions

       The prompt "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 to me that everyone has a reason to do something and that ends up affecting someone else. The book, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom, shows this by taking you through Eddie's memories of childhood, adulthood, and old age. When Eddie was a child he ran in front of a car to get a ball. The man slammed on his brakes, and later died from a heart attack. The "Blue Man" in heaven tells Eddie, "' That death doesn't just take someone it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed lives are changed.'" If the "Blue Man" had never slammed on his brakes Eddie would be dead, but Eddie went to the Blue Man's funeral instead of the "Blue Man" going to Eddie's funeral.
       The second person, was Eddie's captain in the war. He gave up his life and sacrificed himself to save his fellow men. The captain says, "' You just don't know it yet I gained something too...I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.'" He kept his promise and didn't leave his men behind. He sacrificed his life so Eddie and the others could live to see another day.
       When Eddie felt like his old self, he learned from a little girl his reason for being alive and his impact on others' life. When Eddie asks "'Why?'" he was supposed to be at Ruby Pier, she replies, "' Children...You keep them safe.'" Eddie thought his reason for being at Ruby Pier was because of his father. But, Tala says he was there to keep children safe. Eddie affected the children and everyone who went to Ruby Pier by keeping them safe. His reasons for staying affected others just like others actions affected him and his life.