Our Stories Are All One

“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you a separate a breeze from the wind.” What does this mean to you?

 “That there are no random acts.” All actions, whether intended or unintended, simple or complex, have consequences. If you act on something it is going to impact the life and choices of someone else as well as your own. Eddie expresses this idea when talking to Noel at Ruby Pier. Eddie says, “Look at that guy...I promise you, he’ll drop that cigar on the boardwalk…It falls in the cracks, then it starts to burn…Yesterday I grabbed a kid…about to put a cigar butt in his mouth” (page 130). In this basic story, Eddie is saying that there are no coincidences; “there are no random acts.”

 “That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you a separate a breeze from the wind.” This part of the quote means that all creatures are intertwined. Although the characters may not be aware of it they “are all connected.” An example from the story is the link between Eddie and Ruby. Even though they never met in life, these characters had an impact one another. Eddie’s father and later Eddie worked and spent countless hours at Ruby Pier, which was constructed and named in honor of Ruby. Later, Eddie’s dying father and Ruby’s husband shared a hospital room and although Eddie’s father was unaware of his roommate, Ruby was conscious of who her husband was sharing a room with. Ruby knew the true details of Eddie’s father’s death.

I think that this quote ties in with the prompt. “That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one” (page 196). We are not here to simply fill up space; without each of us, every place and every person would be different. We are all affected by the actions and choices as well as the mere existence of the others. 

He Has a Plan

    "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 a wind." This quote can have a different meaning to everyone because of their personal background. Growing up with such a loving family I see it as saying everything is meant to happen. Every single thing on Earth was set up by God to happen that way. Everyone that you meet is meant to play a role in your life. Without meeting just one simple person would make you a different person you are today. Also, there are no surprises to our God , just when we think that a tragedy has occurred , it just so happens that it was God's plan that we may have lost a love one. His reasons are infinite , maybe it was to make you stronger for something you may do in the future. In the end God does have a plan for you , the only thing he can not change is what you make out of each opportunity. That will determine how you feel. The quote explains how I look at my life. You should smile at everything and live with a positive attitude because he has a plan for you. A plan for Heaven.

One is All

   “There are no random acts in life. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”If you think that something that happened to you was just a coincidence, you’re wrong .Your actions don’t just affect you. Whether you like it or not, it can affect many other people in a good way or a bad way. For example, in the story, Eddie ran in front of the Blue Man’s car to chase the ball. This caused the Blue Man’s swerve the car avoiding Eddie. The Blue Man already had the stress of being “blue”, and then he almost hit a child. Later on, the Blue Man died of heart attack. If Eddie hadn’t been there, the Blue Man could’ve survived. This shows that even the tiniest thing can affect your life. Even if someone just walked by or if you just made a friend, it can affect you or them somehow. This also shows how everyone is connected. Not meaning relatively, but someway, someone can change someone’s life. This shows that the “One”, you, is connected to everyone else, which is the “All”

You Play a Role

                                              You Play a Role

We all have a different opinion on everything we experience. “That there are no random acts.  That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another that you can separate a breeze from a wind.” Can have various meanings, for me, it means my decisions affect everyone around me. Decisions are what make the world go around. It was my mother and father’s decision to have a child it was completely up to them. They had the choice and by them agreeing to have a child, I was born. I am beyond thankful things happened like they did, because if they did not I would not be given the privilege to be existent. Everything I do, every word I speak, matters. I was not put on this Earth just to fill space or be a background character in someone else’s movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if I did not exist. Every place I have ever been and everyone I have every spoken to would be different without me. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us. God put each and every one of us on this Earth for a reason, and your decisions affect everyone around you. Therefore, next time I think to make a decision I must ask myself “How will this affect everyone around me?”

We Are All Connected.

             In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, the author says “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 means everything we do could have an unexpected effect on someone else.

The effect could be a bad thing. A family comes into a restaurant. Their child wants a burger, but the restaurant is out. The child then orders a seafood platter. It turns out, he was majorly allergic to shellfish and he dies, just because someone ordered the last burger.

The effect could also be good, even with something as seemingly tragic as a car crash. Two people get in a car crash and one person breaks their leg. What they don’t know is the crash saved them from driving over a railroad with broken mechanisms and getting crushed by a train.

Whether it is a small thing like ordering a burger or a big thing like crashing into them on the road, everything we do affects someone else, for better or worse.

Chain Reaction

     Whether they are simple or difficult, everyone has decisions to make in their day to day life. What you decide will affect everyone else because your actions will create a chain reaction of how people are influenced by your choices. An example, say you bully a kid to the point he kills himself. Possibly then his mother would go into a depression or their entire family would become dysfunctional.
     Not every act you do will make a great impact, if any at all, on the people around you. However, a simple good morning could change someone's whole frame of mind. The reason most acts are not random is because things you do or say can change a person's entire day that would not have happened had you done something different. You cannot go a day without altering someone else's path with your actions and atmosphere. Where you might think that you have no purpose, as Eddie had felt throughout the book, you are mistaken.
    You may not notice who you influence and be clueless of the fact that a person's day was modified due to you, but those people are there. Some are affected for the better, some for the worse, and where you might not want to interrupt people's lives, there is no possible way to separate yourself from the next person. Before you do something, think about how it will modify an individual's attitude. You never know who's life you will change.

Our Inalterable Destiny

         Fate is defined as the will, principle, or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do. "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." What I interpreted from this quote is that although we may not know it, every choice we make contributes to some one's fate. In the novel The Five People You Meet In Heaven, a simple act such as a ball rolling into the street and Eddie going to retrieve it caused the Blue Man his life. The things we do in our lives are not randomly put together like pieces of a puzzle. Everything we do could affect some one's life, just like what happened between Eddie and the Blue Man. Although we are all different people, our life choices are intertwined with each other to create our fate. I believe that people should take this quote into consideration before making some of the decisions they make. Most of all, what I got out of this quote was that we are the choices we make. But, if you knew that every action you do had an impact as huge as Eddie had on the Blue Man's, would you do anything differently with your life? 

A Strange Mystery

       Life is mysterious in many ways. Strange things happen, and we don't know why. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you could separate a breeze from the wind." was said by The Blue Man. This quote explains life very well.  

 

      "That there are no random acts..." in this part of the quote it means everything happens for a reason. Things may be accidents, but there was no way to change what was going to happen. People blame themselves for tragic accidents, when, sometimes, they have no control of the situation. Take the accident at Ruby Pier for instance. Eddie was a maintenance worker, and did a very good job at keeping the rides safe, but when the ride stalled he had no idea it was going to happen. He did his very best to keep the people on the ride safe, and even sacrificed his own life.

 

      "That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." is the last part of the quote is saying that every action a person makes is going to affect another. If you make a good choice or a bad choice, it affects other people. In Eddie's case, during the time he served in the war, he and some of his fellow soldiers were kidnapped by the enemy. When they finally escaped, they wanted to get revenge, so they set fire to the enemy's camp. Little did Eddie know, the tent he picked had a little girl inside. She was killed, and that was the fifth person Eddie met in heaven.

 

    This quote has taught me many things. People can't change things from the past. It's better not to blame themselves, because it just weighs you down. Everything happens for a reason. Every choice someone makes is surely going to affect someone else. After all, life is a strange mystery.

You Can't Change Fate

The things we do and face in life all happen for a certain reason that we may not understand. The quote " That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more seperate one life from another than you can seperate a breeze from the wind", explains this very well. No one can change the cause and effect of what happens because it is connected to every single person not just you. It's just the circle of life, one person dies and another is born. In some way we are all intertwined by our actions that"s why the circle of life is never ending. One thing as simple as going to pick up a ball accidently thrown in the street can cause another person"s life to end and you would never know. Always be careful of your actions because they speak louder than words. One day our life and everything we faced will all make since to us. Just like Eddie, he found the true meaning of his life which was to keep children safe.  We are all put on this Earth for a reason and we will discover why when the time comes. Everyone has a different fate or destiny that's what make us unique or different from one another. God is the only one who knows your fate. Fate is fate and that's something you cannot change.

Life Is A Mystery...

Life is simply, a mystery. You can never fully understand it until you finally meet that one person that can help you understand it. Eddie didn't find that person until after he died. When the old lady, Ruby, had told her story to Eddie he found that the Ruby's life was connected to his. The place that he had went to all his life was named after Ruby. It's amazing how Eddie had to die to figure out why so many things happened in his life. When he learned about those things he felt better about them because he knows now why it happened. For instance, when Mickey had tried to come onto Eddies mother, Eddies father could have went after him to hurt him; but he realized that he could not do that because in the end that was his friend. Also, Mickey was intoxicated an that was what could have caused him to act like that. Through it all, Eddies father still had love in his heart for his friend. Eddie saw ten that his father did have love in his heart; he just didn't know how to show it.

A Changeable Future

Even if our life now doesn't look so great, don't give up on trying to make it great. You have the ability to change your future. We all have a changeable future.
Eddie thought his life was horrible, so he gave up on trying to make it better. But in the end, he had realized if he had only made an effort to change little things in his life, it would have been a little better.
Eddie wanted so badly to find out who the little hands were he had felt when he had died; he wasn't expecting it to be the little village girl's hands. Also, Eddie had wished he had saved the little girl, but if he did he wouldn't have been alive. Thanks to the captain he was alive.
Never give up on your life. Whether its good or bad. You never know what the future holds!

Unexpected Fate

        Eddie didn't know that the end of his life would be the beginning of a new journey. He thought his life was meaningless; come to find out, it was filled with many stories that he his was blind to. When he had met the Blue Man ,he didn't know that he had risked his life for him. He also did not even think anything of it when he had run out to catch that ball.

  Eddie had learned many things throughout his journey in heaven. One of the things he learned was that everyday God may allow a person to die in order to keep you alive and to finish your journey on Earth. Eddie had no idea that the day he was shot during battle was to save his life. After meeting the Captain in heaven, he then realized that it was only for his good.
    While meeting everyone in heaven, Eddie realized that his life did in fact have a meaning to it,  and that was to love his family and be the best he can be (Even though it didn't work out that way). At the end of his journey he finally found out whose hands he had felt when he died. And it was very surprising to find out that it was a little girl from a village which he had burned during the war. He was sad that he couldn't save them, but the little girl had brought to his attention that it was fine ; the kids were happy that they were in a safe place now.
      Everyone has the ability to change their fate. It's  about how much effort you put forth. Your fate can be good or bad. In Eddies case it was unexpected.

The Domino Effect

    When an action of some sort occurs, it affects the people around it. Those people who are immediately affected often end up affecting others indirectly. When one pushes the first domino in a line, it lands on the next domino that continues to strike the next one until they have all fallen down. Even though the first domino never touches the last one, it could not have fallen without the first one moving.

   The main character in this novel, Eddie, acts as the last domino. The event of Nick’s key falling out of his pocket, during the roller coaster ride, set off a series of events. When the key slowly grinds away at the wire holding the ride in place, the result is the wire being cut. While Eddie found out what is wrong with the ride, it soon collapsed, causing his death. When he dies, it set off another new chain of events.

   The quote from the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven reads, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can a breeze from the wind.” I believe that every action is important and that everyone and everything is affected by it one way or another. Such as during the Boston Bombing, when many of us were not actually there, we felt connected to the bombing, and became affected by it. Once someone was changed by it, it would change their life forever, and set off a new chain of events.

Everything Serves a Purpose

"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." These words were spoken to Eddie by the Blue Man to teach Eddie that everything, every act, every person has a purpose.

"That there are no random acts. . ." To me this means that there is a resaon every act is committed and  that every action has a reaction that will lead you to your fate. Life is not a game of chance. In the book this is expressed when the captain made the decision to run ahead of his escaping group. As a result of his actions, the captain ended up stepping on a land mine, clearing the path and saving the groupo from certain disaster.

". . . That we are all connected. . ." I believe that this means we are all bound by something greater than us all. This bind gives us the urge to do good things for each other. To help one another. During the ending moments of Eddie's life, he felt this urge. When the key lodged inside of Freddy's Free Fall, it slowly started cutting at the cable. As the cable broke, Eddie noticed the little girl standing helplessly under the falling cart. He then felt the necessity to jump out and save her. To help her. To risk his life to save her's because he felt the connection.

". . . That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." In my mind this means that all people are the same, no matter their social class or economic status. No person is greater than another. Not all people feel this way, however. For the Blue Man, because of his tinted skin, he was considered a freak. He was abnormal to others. Some might even say he was strange. Though he was the same as everyone else, people saw themselves as better than he was. The Blue Man was exactly like them, it was a medical side effect that was beyond his control that caused him to be this way.

To sum this up, everyone is connected in life as part of a giant complex plan. To where if a person crosses paths with someone, they will play a significant role in their life. Whether it be good or bad. That every choice a person makes can impact a complete stranger tremendously. In simplest terms, what you do can change a person's life, because like in a pulley system, everything is connected.

One Small Act In Life

                "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." There's not one thing in this world that does not have a cause-and-effect scenario. When Eddie first got in Heaven, he met the Blue Man, the first of his five people. The Blue Man gave him his first lesson, that there are no random acts in life, everything that happens has a reason for it to happen. This proves as a huge meaning to the everyday life, that just one small act can make a difference in the biggest of circumstances. Even the smallest of acts, as in not high fiving your friend back, or even like Eddie and kicking a ball in the street, can change a whole other life forever, whether you know it or don't.
                  I think that what Mitch Albom, the author of this novel, was trying to explain to us about "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," doesn't necessarily have to be in Heaven. It can be taken place anywhere in the mortal, religious, or scientific world as it wants to, because it's about learning from your life when you lived. That it can take a whole life time to learn just one small thing. Referring back to how the Blue Man died whenever Eddie was only a little boy, and Eddie not knowing at all, because it can take a whole lifetime to learn about what was done, and that just one small act, can change it all.