the five people you meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
Time Warner Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN: 0751536148
... Everyone has an idea of heaven, as do most religions, and they should be respected. The version represented here is only a gues, a wish, in some ways, that my uncle, and others like him - people who felt unimportant here on earth - realize, finally, how much they mattered and how they were loved.
Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies on this eighty-third birthday in a tragic accident at the amusement park where he has been working all his life. He dies while trying to save the life of a little girl and as he dies he feels two little hands in his. When he wakes he feels different, is in a different place but still does not know whether he could save the little girl. He then meets five people who explain his life to him, explain why things went a certain way and slowly he realizes many things that have been hidden from his understanding all these years. And slowly things start making sense, things come together, everything falls into place, while he is still waiting to get to that peaceful place he has heaven imagined to be. Where we would meet the people who left before him, who he'd missed for so long...
Many times we are not aware of how our actions influence other people's lifes. Only if they do tell us we will realize. But that hardly ever happens because we also don't tell people how they have influcened us. Sometimes because we might not realize, somtimes because we think it would not matter to them anyway. That is why we need to wait so long until someone explains things to us and things become clear. It is a truely moving book but one that is delightful and inspiring, one that does not let you get depressed about the past, because in the instant everything becomes clear, the worries of the past disappear. The enlightenment is more important then the suffering.
Mitch Albom has been voted America's No. 1 sports columnist ten times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He hosts a daily radio show on WJR in Detroit and appears on ESPN regularly. Albom, a former professional musician, lives in Michigan.
Available at Amazon in English and Deutsch.
Tags: English, novel
Time Warner Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN: 0751536148
... Everyone has an idea of heaven, as do most religions, and they should be respected. The version represented here is only a gues, a wish, in some ways, that my uncle, and others like him - people who felt unimportant here on earth - realize, finally, how much they mattered and how they were loved.
Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies on this eighty-third birthday in a tragic accident at the amusement park where he has been working all his life. He dies while trying to save the life of a little girl and as he dies he feels two little hands in his. When he wakes he feels different, is in a different place but still does not know whether he could save the little girl. He then meets five people who explain his life to him, explain why things went a certain way and slowly he realizes many things that have been hidden from his understanding all these years. And slowly things start making sense, things come together, everything falls into place, while he is still waiting to get to that peaceful place he has heaven imagined to be. Where we would meet the people who left before him, who he'd missed for so long...
Many times we are not aware of how our actions influence other people's lifes. Only if they do tell us we will realize. But that hardly ever happens because we also don't tell people how they have influcened us. Sometimes because we might not realize, somtimes because we think it would not matter to them anyway. That is why we need to wait so long until someone explains things to us and things become clear. It is a truely moving book but one that is delightful and inspiring, one that does not let you get depressed about the past, because in the instant everything becomes clear, the worries of the past disappear. The enlightenment is more important then the suffering.
Mitch Albom has been voted America's No. 1 sports columnist ten times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He hosts a daily radio show on WJR in Detroit and appears on ESPN regularly. Albom, a former professional musician, lives in Michigan.
Available at Amazon in English and Deutsch.
Tags: English, novel
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