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Submitted by jaf58 on April 21, 2006
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It may start with one simple spark in the darkest of times. When the walls of the world seem as though they are squeezing the life out of you, and you’re trapped under the demands and desires of an overwhelming society; when you feel so broken inside, your identity is almost unrecognizable. When this pain feels as if it is too much to bear, it may be that one spark that suddenly lights your world anew and in some cases changes your life forever.
I read it over the long hours of one night, unable to put it down, until suddenly the light of the sunrise penetrated my blinds. As I closed the book with a satisfied smile, tears streamed down my face until the title of the book became one big blur. Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven had sparked a much-needed emotional reformation inside my heart. It had quenched my thirsty body with a hope and comfort I had been seeking for the longest time.
In The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom simply represents his version of what heaven could be like. Ideally, in this heaven people who felt unimportant here on earth would realize, finally, how much they mattered and how they were loved. “This is the greatest gift God can give to you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.” This is what I had been searching for as well, a piece of heaven—a moment to learn five lessons about life, love, relationships, sacrifice, and forgiveness. These five lessons taught me how to live.
In explaining the circular nature of life, Albom begins his first lesson:
“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between taken and being missed, lives are changed.” I learned that all lives connect somehow and that our choices affect others whether we know it or not. “Strangers are just family you have yet...
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