Did this story lead you to a new understanding or awareness of some aspect of your life that you might not have thought about before?

       This story bought awareness to me that everyone is some how connected in this world. Things we do and say affect not only ourselves, but others around us, even if they are your best friend or a complete stranger. In Eddie's case it was a stranger that he impacted. In Eddie's first lesson in Heaven, he was greeted by the Blue Man.  The Blue man tells Eddie that there are no random acts in life and that we are all connected.

           Eddie and the Blue man were connected because when Eddie was a boy he ran onto the road catching a ball, and the Blue man was the driver who had to slam the breaks in order to avoid hitting Eddie. Eddie ran of safely in the distance, bit the Blue man experienced a huge jolt of adrenaline which forced his heart to pump furiously and because his heart wasn't a strong one, the pumping leaves him drained. The Blue Man felt dizzy and his head dropped, and before he knew it his car was crashed.If Eddie didn't run across the road to catch his ball, the Blue man would probably have lived longer.

           This part in the book made me really think more about life and connections. It made a lot of sense about the connections that the author was trying to get across. This line stood out to me the most when I read this section of the book, when the Blue man said:

"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 line puts more of a deeper understanding to the authors point. We aren't separate beings, we are part of this big world full of so many other people. Everything we do and say connects us to people we know and everyday strangers.