Blog Post 2

In the past week I have read up to page 146 which is right before the chapter "The Fourth Person Eddie Meets in Heaven".  Since my last blog post many things have happened within the story, it starts off with Eddie arriving in heaven.  Mitch Albom has a very unique and interesting way of describing heaven.  He says that everybody has five specific people that they will meet in heaven that will help them learn why their lives on earth happened the way they did.  Eddie met a circus performer from Ruby Pier, a general that he was under command of in the  Vietnam War, and his father.  Each person taught him something new about himself and about his life on earth.  This story relates to my life because I now have been thinking about all the people that I have met and how they may have played a significant role in my life that I am completely unaware of.  Also I once saw an episode on Opera that talked about a similar theory as Mitch Alboms, the scientist believed that in the afterlife/heaven place a person watches over everyone they have left on earth after their death.  Not only do they just watch but as their watching they hear conversations that are exchanged by the people still on earth.  The old saying everything happens for a reason is the perfect fit for this story so far.