Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Lives Tangled Together

“I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord…” states Jeramiah 29:11. This bible verse relates to the quote most notable from The Five People you Meet in Heaven, “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 has a plan already made for them therefor entangling everyone’s lives because in the beginning God created one man from which everyone descends. In the Garden of Eden, Adam ate the forbidden fruit bringing sin into the world; today, we are still suffering from his decision. This shows that there are no random acts and that this was God’s plan. People do not realize that no matter how big or small of a decision they make, it will affect other people’s lives.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the first person Eddie meets when he reaches Heaven is Joseph Corvelzchik, also known as the “Blue Man”, and he teaches 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.” Eddie first met the blue man at a side show on Ruby Pier. Little did they know, one of Eddie’s decisions would change Joseph’s life. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Eddie is tossing a baseball with his friends when it flies over his head. Eddie runs after it right in front of an automobile that Joseph Corvelzchick is driving. The close encounter with Eddie causes him to have a heart attack behind the wheel and he ends up rolling in the car until it hits the back of a parked truck killing Joseph. Eddie had no idea that he had caused Joseph’s death or that their lives were tangled together. Even though Eddie did not know Joseph, when their paths crossed, Eddies decision had a lasting effect on Josephs life.
At Eddies job as a maintenance man at Ruby Pier, he affects countless people’s lives by just doing what he gets paid to do, fixing breaks and replacing cables on rides. There is one particular little girl named Amy/Annie, Eddie was never really sure of her name, whose life he saved from a broken ride called Freddy’s Freefall. One of the internal cables that no one could access snapped causing the ride to fail. After getting the riders out of the ride, Eddie told another worker named Willie to release the manual restraint and the ride came crashing to the ground. Eddie saw Amy/Annie under the ride and he ran after her and pushed her out of the way allowing the ride to fall on himself. Eddie made a decision to sacrifice himself allowing the little girl to live. Eddies decisions throughout his life have affected numerous people whether he knows it or not. 

Just like how Eddie did not know that he would have an effect on Joseph or the little girl, we do not realize how we affect other people’s lives, no matter how big or small of a decision it is. A simple breeze could turn into a hurricane just like how someone’s small decision could have a huge effect on another’s life.

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