The Five People You Meet in Heaven
...as making enough money just to feed himself. Later he ended up working at the Ruby Pier. His connection with Eddie was, one day Eddie and a few friends were throwing a baseball around. The baseball ended up being thrown into the street and Eddie went out to get it. When he did this the Blue Man was driving his friend’s car and swerved and missed Eddie as he ran across the street, but he was shaken up and kept swerving and hit a parked truck. There he laid there helplessly to die. The lesson that the Blue Man had for Eddie was that there are not coincidences in life and that everything happens for a reason. The second person that Eddie meets is his old army commander. When Eddie was visualizing his war days, he ends up finding his army commander up in a tree. His commander looked as if his face had a coal black substance on it, and his eyes were a red color. The connection that Eddie had with his commander is pretty obvious, he was his commander. They fought and parted in the Philippines. The lesson from the commander was that sometimes you have to make sacrifices. Like in the story, the commander sacrificed himself and saved three other people by triggering a land mine. The third person that Eddie meets in heaven is Ruby. Looking like the typical grandma, thin white hair and rose colored lipstick. Their connection was that she had a boy friend and later on husband that built the Ruby Pier just for her. Soon bad things happened and her husband lost every thing and ended up in the hospital. The same hospital that Eddie’s father was in. Anyway, with out Ruby, there would be no pier for Eddie or his father to work at. The lesson that Ruby had for Eddie was forgiveness. He and his father never bonded or had a good father and son life. There for a while his father didn’t even talk to him. Because of this Eddie was angry at his father because all his life he was hard on Eddie and Eddie was holding in the anger and it was hurting himself. He also didn’t learn that his dad had also done a little bit of good in his li...