Every act and every event has an ending. Nothing is really permanent in this world, but in every end confers new beginnings. It’s as if a day ends and then tomorrow another one begins. It means to start anew and make things better. It means hope for restructuring to make things right. It means hope for change. It means chance. It is God’s love for us that no matter how we have already done and ended He had never failed to give us chances for new beginning, new hope, and new chance to realize and refurbish. Endings had brought me happiness, relief, learning and sadness. Successfully cutting the line of nuisance and misery brought me happiness and relief while the end of each joyful event in my life had always brought me both despair and happiness-- either way had brought me learning to bear. I felt happiness and relief at the end of each predicament for from there I know that I haven’t given up in the midst of adversity and from there flourishes beginning of better living and existence brought by the lessons of each tests. Whereas, despair is brought by goodbyes and closing stages of events, I should not grief but rather be thankful and happy that something great ones had happened to my life. This end is the beginning of better relationships, perspective and camaraderie. This end allows the start of new experience brought by another event. Counting down Eddie’s final minutes made me realize how much life is short and precious for it to be wasted. We shouldn’t spend it focusing on our downs, miseries, frailties and misfortunes, instead, we should be grateful of what we have and make the most out of it. From what we know, we might have a little time left; hence, we should take in realization that until we have time we should instead look at life’s beauty and spend it wisely-- spend it for God, for our happiness, and for others. Furthermore, there’s a lot that we can do with what we have rather than to waste time pushing ourselves down. Instead, we should do better with what we encompass enable for us to prove ourselves that in spite our flaws we are still capable, and that these flaws doesn’t make us less of a person rather better and stronger ones. Eddie’s final minutes made me value life much better. It tapped me off and harked me back that I am so much blessed in spite my infirmity. It stroke a chord and made me realize how everything can be taken away in just a glimpse; therefore, as much as we can do we should make ourselves worth remembering. We should enjoy life until we can and do the things we would want to do, so, at the end there won’t be no regrets. Perhaps what Albom wants us to perceive is that in our lives nothing is really certain and not all we expect is what we get. We can never predict how things will turn out to be; hence, we should be fair to everyone instead, and try to do unto them righteous things. We will never know that conceivably the great things which had happened to our lives were because of these people. Indeed, peace starts with one’s self. Before we can be able to show peace among our fellowmen, we should be able to find peace within ourselves. This means that all our internal issues must first be resolved in order for us to be able to face our fellowmen with our head held high and ready to face our external challenges. Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions or more are the people here on earth, but only few makes an impact to one’s life. Our lives as some would say are interconnected, one little move of a single person relative to you or not does change to another’s life, but only some would significally make a turn to ones life. My parents would probably be the first two people whom I will meet in heaven. My parents were the reason why I have my vision and goals in life. They raised me up as I am today and they are my foundations. They are the ones who filled me up and provided me love and acceptance which I can’t receive any better from others. My uncle would probably be the third person whom I’ll meet. He’s been my best friend tito whom my dad would always trust to leave me to. He’s the one who taught me how to walk, he’s the one who brought me out of our house and allowed me to see the world and people around, and he’s the one who until now is still always willing to help me in spite of his busy schedule. He has done all these without asking anything in return, he has done all these even if I fail to ask his situation, and he has done all these even if we frequently have misunderstandings. Last, the fourth and fifth people perhaps would be my two friends, one I consider my kuya and the other as my best friend. They are the ones whom I really felt that aside from family there will be people whom I can count on and who will fight for me and accept me as I am. They were the ones who in spite of what I have done wrong, in spite of my mood swings, and in spite of everything has forgiven me endlessly and have not love me less. The people who would probably meet me in heaven are the ones I have made significant change to. These are probably my friends and family. Perhaps, my presence will be seen by these people because I have brought to them lessons and experience which are life changing.