I just finished this book. Easy read. Introspective. It's a thinking man's book about the past and the future. The book tries to convey idea that everything in life is connect. The choices you make have an affect on someone else that you may not expect or even know.
O/T: Did you know that N.E.R.D. stands for No one ever really dies? Cuz I didn't.
Things that stood out:
- "People often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners" (34).
- "There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth" (35).
- "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" (48). It gives me hope that everything happens for a reason is valid and a truth I can hold on too. I'd like to think that my life hasn't been a waste, not just yet anyways. I'm hoping that I can still turn things around. It's not too late. I can change things.
- "Faireness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young" (48). This is a great thought. Think back to all those people who died young. Those who we mourned as tragic figures. Recently, think about Kurt Cobain.
- That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed (48).
