All right.
This topic seemed quite controversial
I hope I don't get tomatoes thrown at me.......?
What ARE the five lessons in The Five People You Meet in Heaven
I went back to each lesson section and tried to extract the lesson from each person.
1- On the same page with Barbara, the Blue Man seemed the least interesting. But anyway, I took a direct quote from the Blue Man for this lesson:
"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
2- The Captain, I wish he would've said something more objective, but that supports what Mary said, that the lessons were inteded for Eddie to learn:
"...Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not
really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
From this, I take the lesson is Sacrifice...
3- Ruby:
"You need to forgive your father."
Forgiveness
4- Marguerite, the most sentimental:
"Life has to ened, love doesn't."
Basically, love doesn't end, just takes a different shape or form.
5- Tala, what a surprise:
OK, I honestly don't know the lesson here....someone please throw it in my face.
I think the order of how the Five People were introduced was logical. Every person brought along even more sentimental and difficult issues that Eddie suffered with throughout his life. I'm not sure about the Blue Man. He's significantly less meaningful...well, to me.
Anyway, do say what you take the Five Lessons to be. I missed them, on a conscious level. I wasn't reading for meaning here.
Take it away.
