The 5 People you Meet in Heaven........

"Strangers," the blue man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know".........."No life is a waste.  The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"

I have always wondered what people meant when I have heard them say that a book has changed there perception on certain things.  Personally I have never encountered such a book.....until this classic by Mitch Albom was recommended to me.

This book follows the life of Eddie a war vereteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park.  As the park begins to change and age over the years, so too has Eddie changed, from an optimistic young man to a bitter old one.  He believes his days are a dull routine of work, life and regret.

On his 83rd birthday Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart.  He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by 5 people who were in it.  These 5 people may have been loved ones or distant strangers.  Yet each of them changed your path forever.

What I loved most about the book is how Mitch Albom’s story allows us to see how everyone in the world is in one-way an influence to our lives.  For me it is a timeless tale and provides some meaning to our lives here on earth.  If you are after a great read, then this will not disappoint.

"And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Bank Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven - That each effects the other and the other affects the next, the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one"

Enjoy

Nanna Lush x