Blog Assignment #1

Blog Assignment #1:

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

      This prompt: "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 many things to me. Even as a small child, I never believed in random acts. I recall often, the memory of watching scary movies. I was never really a person to enjoy such films, for for an unknown reason, I watched them anyway, regretting it later. These movies would always frighten me as I tried to sleep at night. I always remembered telling myself, "Everything happens for a reason." So even if there was that boogie man in the closet, or that creature under the bed, I would tell myself that. So if there are no random acts and everything has a reason, if something should happen to me, it was meant to. The phrases "there are no random acts" and "everything has a reason", is the reason why my fears didn't control me then and don't to this day. 

       We are all human beings. We're all the same, but also all different. I never understood people's resentment and prejudice against each other. We are who we are, and we were born that way. White, black, purple, blue; American, Asian, African American, it doesn't matter. We're all human. We're all connected in that way and we always will be and hatred and racism won't change it. So we need to accept each other and the world would be better place. I suppose that would be like trying to strap feathers to a pig and try to make it fly, right? But I truly believe that if people read this inspirational novel, they would become better people. That is the power of this book. This prompt is the reason why my fears do not control me, but also the reason that I believe we're all equal and all the same. Everything happens for a reason.

Blog Assignment #1

The following 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 everything and everyone are going to be connected no matter what. Everybody knows someone and whatever you do will eventually affect someone else. For instance, Eddie saved the little girl at the amusement park because he cared about her. Even though he didn't know her, he risked his life to save her then ,eventually he ended up dying, and she continued her life on Earth. Therefore, you can not separate yourself from anyone because we all end up being apart of something, or there's always a connection between you and someone else. Like, the Blue Man in the story The Five People You Meet In Heaven ,for example,the Blue Man was affected by Eddie's decision to run in the middle of the street to retrieve his ball. And the Blue Man was distracted for a brief moment and ended up swerving and minutes later, was dead because of an accident he had that day. As you can see, none of them knew each other, but they were both affected in the long run.
So, I believe when they say that," you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind," they are simply saying you can't have breeze without the wind. Because these two are a package deal, they are meant to be together as one. So everyone is meant to come together for a purpose. It doesn't really matter why we have to; it's God's decision. Our life depends on one another, and we basically survive off of one another. The point is we need each other, and we are all attached to one another. We cannot be separated. As one life starts, another one must end!