A Book Review

The 7th of last month was Reading Day of my school. I won the winner of my class by recommending this book, ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ and I got about $900 of books!
The book is written by Mitch Albom who also wrote a famous book, ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ The story has filmed as a movie as well. Besides, the book was chosen by Radio Television Hong Kong as one of the Best Ten books. Here is some information about the author. He works as a newspaper columnist and a broadcaster and serves on numerous charitable boards in Michigan, United States.
By the title, you may think that it is about who you will meet after your death. But actually, the story is about a man called Eddie.
This story begins with two words, ‘The End’ and it wrote like this. ‘It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.’. Eddie was a soldier when he was young and he was a maintenauce worker in an amusement park before he died. On his 83rd birthday, he died because of rescuing a little girl in the park from an accident. When he woke up, he was already in Heaven. He meet five people that has been appeared in his life in Heaven. Some changed his life and some was affected by him. This five people told Eddie what he did correctly and wrongly and he was inspired by them. I am not going to tell you the whole thing. But after he was inspired, he forgave the others and also himself. And he wanted to be others’ five people meet in Heaven, to teach them what he knew.
Heaven, in everyone’s mind may be a peaceful place, nothing to be worried, but only happiness. But the Heaven in this book, is to let us review our life. See that if there is anything to introspect. Although it may be not as wonderful as you think, it let us to re-understand our new journey. As the first line of the book I mentioned. Endings are also the beginnings. Eddie did have love in his life but he didn’t enjoy the love or even he didn’t feel it. Actually, being alive with love is a kind of bliss.
I learnt lots of philosophies, it refresh the meaning of life in my mind. And by way of Eddie’s story, we can think of our future and walk foreword to it. So that we can find our Heaven. May be in the day I die, I may meet five people too telling me what I did right and wrong. I am not looking foreword to your deaths, but I hope you will find your five people someday and be other’s five people.
Lastly, here is a sentence to end my sharing. ‘Life ends, but love doesn’t.’(from one of the famous persons but I forgot who’s that.)

(I’m now sticking with Tuesdays With Morrie!)