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The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom


Here is a thought. We know all those who are born are to die someday which is basically just completing nature’s cycle. Just for a moment, keep aside your thoughts about afterlife and assume that there is a stage between the life and death. You are dead and alive at the same time (No geeks, not like Schrodinger's cat!!). Consider this as a stage between the life and the death, kinda like getting down at an airport between hopping flights. But before getting on the next flight you get to meet some people that have major impact on your life or are affected by you being in their life.

Sounds interesting? This is a plot for the book called “The five people you meet in heaven” by Mitch Albom. The story starts with an old guy waking up right after a horrible accident. Once he realizes that he is dead, he wonders what will happen next. He is standing right at the place where he died and then starts the journey where he meets those five important people in his life who had touched his life in a special way. He meets them, learns new things about their relationship that he had ignored in the past, forgives them, loves them and beholds them before getting absorbed into an eternity.

Yet another emotional novella from Mitch Albom that makes you think about life. 196 pages book which is worth reading if you are open to the concept of afterlife.

Quotes from the book:
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.” 
“No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
“There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...” 
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