Because we only live once...

Here I am again starting to share something with you. I'm so inspired to write a feedback about a movie I just watched 10 minutes ago. It's titled The Five People You Meet In Heaven that is based on a best selling novel by Mitch Albom. First of all, let me remind you that I have no intention to commercially promote this movie nor the book, I just believe that some messages, the quotes in particular, it has are worth learning and grasping.

"...the world is full of stories but the stories are all one." - Mitch Albom

Though the title tells you five people, it does not mean that you are going to meet five people in heaven. As you see from its name, you would probably think that this movie explains things beyond how we ourselves can explain. Some would even say that it has a piece of missionary. They may be right. For me, this movie has another message we can grasp as a lesson-learned, or lesson-not-yet-learned. Started by telling a story about a man who was hopless with his life as he thought he was such a useless man. He assumed that all he did was nothing but a failure. Let me start with this

We're all connected somehow. 

One thing that I could hardly believe is whether everything happens for a reason. I used to think that it's nonense. But then I realized that it could actually be true. People sometimes say "things happen as it should." or "things are happened as it should be.". It got me thinking. 'As it should', 'as it should be'? Can someone explain me further what that actually means?

This movie made me recognize things I ignored. In the movie, it was shown how things you did affected others and so did the other way around and forth endlessly. Well, it is explained that our lives and experiences are all interconnected in some way. But the thing is we can't see how that happens as we can never go beyond our limit as a human. We are only aware of things that we can reach through our five senses. Other than that, a big no. 

If asked, I would like to understand how it is interconnected and to whom my experiences are connected and affected. But I can't, anyhow. Sometimes I come to realize how it happens. There are indeed some things I found interconnected. But I usually find them out long after the connected-one happens. One day won't be enough to tell you all about it.

However, the movie indicates things which can't be found, nor explained in our lives on Earth but are explained in afterlife (as I said, they may be right for giving such opinions about the movie). The alterlife is not my point, but the other things we should remember in our lives that happen to be conveyed in the movies are. 

For the man I've mentioned before, he learned not to be ashamed of things happened in his life all along. He came to love his life as he found out that some things he thought had happened to him didn't really happen as he thought they did. Yes, that seems right to me. Some things didn't really happen as we think they did; also sometimes what we think has happened is not what has actually happened indeed. Yet, it has always had at least a reason both we know and not. But here we are again, being unable to know all.

If only I could have all explained, I would most probably feel peaceful, as state of peace, for me, is when I have certainty. I don't have it however. No one does. We always feel insecure of uncertainties. 

But I believe that at one point in our lives we will unveil the unexplained ones and understand something. I don't know exactly when.

As I have no clue, one thing that I can at least understand is that things happened in our lives are not something to be hated or ashamed of, yet to be accepted and learned. And the movie may have pinched me to remember that I should love my life, I mean, love all things in life with no exception. If I can't, at least I should try to do so. It may seem so utopian though and somehow unrealistic. But I fully believe that what one of the quotes in the movie says is actually true, that there's always a purpose for our life. We live for a reason the same way that people die for a reason. Where we are today is a combination of all past actions, decisions, and the way the people around have affected us.

Pretty conclusive! Life is not supposed to be taken for granted, don't you think? I'll leave it up to you.

I had better end this post now than never...hahaha.

No story sits by itself, sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. - Mitch Albom

Thanks for reading!

*The quotes: GoodReads - Quotes by Mitch Albom