This my number 1 favorite. i read this book when i was in junior high school, that was many years ago (now am 21). and i re-read the English version of this book when i was in Malaysia. I recommended this book to my Japanese sweety Mafuyu.
Mitch Alboom, the author is a Jews with a lack of believes. when he wrote this book, it's all about humanity. nothing correlated with religion.
This is not the story about death. this story is about life. life after death. these are the words that i still remember from this book, approximately :
"people said that every ending is a new beginning. so does the death"
"this is time to figure out anything that can't be explained when you were alive"
"you will know the reason and purpose of your life"
when i read this book, i feel so... human
do you ever feel so worries and questioning to anything you can not explain?
do you ever know that maybe someone you never met also affect your life?
do you know that all of us is connected?
however, we do not know exactly yet.
that's why, reading this book is quite exciting. also in 2004, Hollywood filming this story.
these are some quotes from its movie:
Captain: People stop sacrificing for one another, they lose what keeps them human.
Ruby: Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves...
Blue Man: 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...
Blue Man: Some people think of Heaven as a Garden of Eden...But what is scenery without solace?
Blue Man: Fairness does not govern life and death...If it did, no good man would ever die young...
Blue Man: In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.
Blue Man: There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
Marguerite: Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't.
Blue Man: Strangers are family you have yet to come to know.
the last quote is impressive. "Strangers are family you have yet to come to know". So it's like mixed of logical possibilities wrapped with emotional believes. Even the skeptics and agnostic ones believes in balance of nature. anything can be. anything is possible. don't shut yourself from new idea, new people, and new opportunities. who can resist family?
Things i learned from this book:
"we live once, do good things"
i dreamed of ferris wheel for couple years, for me, it's the best description of life
at times we are up, at times we are down.
life's fair, on its own way.
life's belief.
life's... no matter what we've done, what we've been doing, and what we plan to do, it has meaning. even something we thought a meaningless one.
Life's HOPE
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