It could start with a simple spark in the darkest moments. When it feels like the walls of the world are squeezing the life out of you and you are trapped under the demands and desires of an oppressive society; when you feel so broken inside, your identity is almost unrecognizable. When this pain seems like too much to bear, it may be that spark that suddenly lights up your world again and in some cases changes your life forever. I read it in the long hours of one night, unable to put it down, until suddenly the light of dawn penetrated my blinds. As I closed the book with a satisfied smile, tears streamed down my face until the title of the book became a big blur. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom sparked some much-needed emotional reformation in my heart. It had quenched my thirsty body with a hope and comfort I had long sought. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom is simply his version of what heaven might be like. Ideally, in this paradise people who feel unimportant here on earth would finally realize how much they matter and how much they are loved. "This is the greatest gift God can give you: understanding what happened in your life. Having explanations. It's the peace you've been looking for." This is what I was looking for too, a piece of heaven: a time to learn five lessons about life, love, relationships, sacrifice and forgiveness. These five lessons taught me how to live. Explaining the circular nature of life, Albom begins his first lesson: "It's because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, but misses someone else, and in small distance between being taken and missing, lives change." I learned that all lives connect in some way and that our choices affect others, whether we know it or not. “Strangers are just family you have yet to meet,” maybe one day in heaven. I began to realize that the nights I had spent thinking I was alone were the only real nights I had wasted in my life because through this interconnectedness of lives, "you can't separate one life from another any more than you can separate a breeze from the wind".