the five people

you meet in

heaven by Mitch Albom

Fiction
September 2003
198 pages/hardcover
　

A very touching story.  I read it on the plane to and from Huangshan in Oct 2006.

The beginning of the book was the end of the life of Eddie. 

Eddie, a person with a lot of regrets in his life, died in an accident where he was trying to save a little girl.  And the story was all about the AFTERlife of Eddie. 

It was said that everyone would meet 5 'people' after one's death and before one went into the heaven.  It was most amazing to read the ties between Eddie & the people he met!  My heart really ached when I was reading the part about meeting with his wife!

Mitch Albom wrote it in a very easy-to-understand way so that the story effortlessly touches the very heart and soul of its readers.  It makes me really wonder: the woman sitting next to me in the MTR when I was on the way to work this morning might somehow played a part in my life!  I will never know until it's my time and then I will meet up with my 5 people!  And everyone of us is making impacts to one another, whether you like it or not; you aware it or not; you care about it or not....

So my take away is, don't do things which I will regret.  I may only able to make amend when I will be in the heaven, if I will ever make my way into HEAVEN!!!

Official web site www.albomfivepeople.com/index.htm

Read Chapter One of the book here.