The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Last week, I finished this one novel by Mitch Albom. First impression, it's surprised me how the plot of the story flowed exactly like the title representation. I thought that this title will just be a metaphor to a reality that the main character played. But turned out it's a semi-superstitious story that aligning realities of life as the main structure. I'm not good at writing a book review, but I'd like to write about what I feel throughout my reading. First thing, this story had touched me in a way that I always share a soft part in. A story about feeling worthless and sad and surrendering as a human being. About what to do when your life didn't work out as planned. About many things in our past, we hope we could change. Decisions that we regret. People that we wished we never had known and words that we wished we never had said.

The purpose of every person that Eddie encounter in his newly days in Heaven are to make sense of his yesterday. It written:

"This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for"

This Eddie main character is a character sometimes I see myself become. (Which was a bit depressing to explain in details) on his 80s, living alone when his parents and his loved one already went before him. Never had anyone understand his deeply feeling, wraths, flaws and scars his whole life. Changing direction from what he'd always dream to be because a war accident that made him handicapped and ever so instantly, had him throw away his passion and dreams. Stuck in a city where he was born with his childhood summer job in this local amusement park, Ruby Pier. He had this unfathomable connection with his maintenance job at Ruby Pier, he came to understand once he encountered all of his 'people'. The first chapter of the book begins with an old 83 years Eddie as a maintenance staff at Ruby Pier 

Speaking of life after death. I can't clearly understand the logic beyond it. So when I finished this story, I didn't naively feel that I want to meet people in heaven that will make sense of my past days on earth. But this book and it characters got me thinking about my present. I mean it's scary, the idea of living in an unknown truth throughout our life. It is better to make most of our living days. Seeking truth from the very moment. Chase that person that you love and tell them in person what you truly feel. It inspires me to not let my days fade as a powerless human being. Because no one can pursue our dreams for us, for me.

Unlike Eddie, I'm not fancy the idea of waiting people to reveal a story of me in heaven after I died.

I'm about to make peace with my life, myself