My Five in Heaven

i'd recently finishd a book by Mitch Albom, entitled "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". It's a very thin book, simple to understand but profound with a truths we can all learn in life. I can't fully agree with the picture painted by the Author about God and Heaven, but nonetheless, I applaud the fantastic take he had given to teach us very important lessons in life. These life lessons, I don't think it's just that saving money and be happy kinda shit.. but it's really quite a different context. The author portray these important lessons in life, as different chapters of 5 important person, who had one way or another, directly or indirectedly impacted some focal changes in the key character's life. Mr Eddie Main-te-nace.

In Summary, I won't repeat the story but do read it if you have the time. The author is basically telling us, nothing happen around is by chance. And they are just a concidental drop of rain on our head. Things happen around us for a purpose; purposes which we might or never get to explain to ourselves. We may spend our whole life searching a that futile search, and may end up nowhere, even the wrong place. We may also intepret life's lessons wrongly, and as such, bring along the rest of our lives, the bitterness and anguish which denies us the very freedom of living life. According to the author, we have each of us, five major characters in our lives, which will open our eyes in full and help decipher what we could not, or misunderstood while on earth.

I cannot help but wonder candidly, who would be my five characters in heaven waiting for me, and what lessons will they teach me. According to the book, my first ought to be someone whom I had never met. Someone who has a very contrasting life from mine. What matters would be that little crossroad and junction where our paths crossed briefly. I have had made a great impact in changing in his or her life without knowing. A small insignificant action or word that is of little worth, and of small regard from me; had greatly changed the destiny of this someone. Perhaps we don't realise it but sometimes, we only need the smallest effort the throw things off equillibrium for many others around us, unknowingly. It can be to their misfortune, and may be to their blessing, but it did make a difference.

My second person would have to be someone of no blood relation to me, a person of authority whom I look up to. To mould myself towards his likeness and find solace, protection, acceptance and guidiance from. Since no human being is ever perfect, including this role model, inevitably he would have left something negative and burdensome for me to carry for the rest of my life. Perhaps the role models in each of our individual lives doesn't really help much in shaping and moulding our character. They might just be lone beacons out in the sea. It might be well that we might not need these obscure guides in life.

My third would have to be the one person that can single handedly carved out my homeland and my country. Mr Lee perhaps? hahah..we all know what kind of questions we have for his never ceasing hold and iron fist on our country. And yet we cannot deny that without him, we wouldn't have a safe roof over our head. But what has this man have, an influence in my life that ought I to me him in heaven? Of all the elements that shaped my physical life, my country and the man who had moulded it, would have had unintendedly gave me a template to live my life.

My fourth would have to be somebody very dear and intimate to me. Somebody whom I would spent the rest of my life with. My partner in life that is. What question do I have for him and him for me when we get there? Perhaps to tell him what he had missed out during the absence from each other. No two person can ever spend their lives together eternally. And in this book, even this shortmeeting in heaven would have to be temporal and to release all the pent up memories and feelings that could not have had the chance to be uttered. Seemingly when all hopes seemed lost, we would be offered this one last chance to express the deepest part of our soul.

Who would be the last person I might meet in heaven? Oh gosh I'm not even sure whether I'm even bothered.

Sempllice Simon