where is heaven? how does heaven look like?
『the five people you meet in heaven』 (by mitch albom) gives the answers…
heaven is not a lush garden of eden but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. those people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. yet each of them changed your path for ever
eddie dies for trying to save a little girl’s life. he meets 5 people in the heaven, who have came across his life and been waiting for him in the heaven…
each of the five people tells eddie some stories, and teaches him a lesson…
…excerpt from the book…
1st lesson - life and death
fairness doesn’t govern life and death…
all lives intersect. death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else. and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
when lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. when you colleague falls ill and you do not. we think such things are radom. but there is a balance to it. one withers, another grows…
2nd lesson - sacrifice
sacrifice, you made one. i made one. we all make them. but you were angry over yours. you kept thinking about what you lost.
sacrifice is a part of life. it’s supposed to be. it’s not something to regret. it’s something to aspire.
(when you did sacrifice), you lost something, but you gained something as well. you just don’t know it yet.
3rd lesson - forgiveness
holding anger is a poison. it eats you from inside. we think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. but hatred is a curved blade. and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
4th lesson - lost love
lost love is still love. it takes a different form, that’s all. you cant see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. but when those senses weaken, another heightens. memory. memory becomes your partner. you nurture it. you hold it. you dance with it.
life has to end. love doesn’t.
you made me love you
i didn’t want to do it
i didn’t want to do it…
you made me love you
and all the time you knew it
and all the time you knew it
5th lesson - meaning of life
everyone is part of this world. everyone has his meaning to exist in this world. everyone is worth something. whatever work you do, you are supposed to do. whereever you are… you are supposed to be
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a simple but very meaningful story… great book!!
who are the five people im going to meet in heaven??
even now i still keep a set of the comics 
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