06/18/2006
All Endings Are Also Beginnings
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time...", thus writes Mitch Albom, the prolific author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the book which I am obssessing on these days.
How true that sometimes we regard an ending of something, be it a relationship, a job, or a life, to be the end of it all. We don't usually ponder beyond that end. We tend to overlook the fact that sometimes when something ends, another thing begins.
The book tackles many issues in life. It made me realize that there are things in this world that I carelessly regard; a job for instance. Some of us may find the things we do everyday to be mundane, to be useless, all based on human substandards. Little did we know that every single thing we do makes sense. It has a purpose and it is our purpose for existing.
The Five People... answers some questions that us, mere human beings perpetually ask. I found myself sobbing at some point as the story is gripping with very humane emotions; you would wonder how the author came to know what exactly you are going through at that certain moment, and there right infront of you, the discourse on why this and that happens.
The book was written very simply, nothing as grandiose as your hardbound literary classic stuff. It is, however, filled with the perfect sentiments that hit the right chord.
I suggest you get a copy now to understand more what I am mumbling about here. You know you need to.
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