Eddie is a lonely war veteran who works in a theme park.
On his eighty three birthday, he dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart in the theme park.
With his final breath, he feels two small hand in his - and then nothing.
He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden but place where your earthy life is explained to you by five people who were in it.
These five people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.
Basically this book is telling us that after we died, the journey of our life will be explained to us. The people we met, their path which cross with our path, there is a reason for it which change us forever.
A really good book. It explained the lesson in life that we often forget and neglect.
These are some quotes that I like from the book. :)
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”
“Life has to end. Love doesn't.”
“Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet”
“But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.”
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