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Las Cinco Personas que Encontrarás en el Cielo", de Mitch Albom
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Primero presento las frases exactas, extraídas del libro, que, en mi opinión, contienen en resumen cada una de las cinco lecciones y, en general, el mensaje del autor Mitch Albom con esta obra "Las Cinco Personas que Encontrarás en el Cielo", uno de mis libros favoritos y que, claroestá, recomiendo muchísimo.


Opening,

“THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A MAN named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time”.

Lesson 1,

"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than youcan separate a breeze from the wind."

Lesson 2,

"You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.
"A man goes to war. . . ."
He stopped for a moment and looked off into the cloudygray sky.
"Rabozzo didn't die for nothing, you know. He sacrificed for his country, and his family knew it, and his kid brother went on to be a good soldier and a great man because he was inspired by it.
"I didn't die for nothing, either. That night, we might have all driven over that land mine. Then the four of us would have been gone."
Eddie shook his head. "But you . . ." He lowered hisvoice. "You lost your life."
The Captain smacked his tongue on his teeth.
"That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

Lesson 3,

"That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did,and why you no longer need to feel it."
She touched his hand.
"You need to forgive your father."


Lesson 4,

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You holdit. You dance with it.
"Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't."

Lesson 5,

"I was sad because I didn't do anything with my life. I was nothing. I accomplished nothing. I was lost. I felt like I wasn't supposed to be there."
Tala plucked the pipe-cleaner dog from the water.
"Supposed to be there," she said.
"Where? At Ruby Pier?"
She nodded.
"Fixing rides? That was my existence?" Heblew a deep breath. "Why?"
She tilted her head, as if it were obvious.
"Children," she said. "You keep them safe. You make good for me."
She wiggled the dog against his shirt.
"Is where you were supposed to be," she said, and then she touched his shirt patch with a small laugh and added two words, "Eddie Main-ten-ance."


Libros que te dejan algo; libros que te enseñan algo; libros quesirven para algo más que solo matar el tiempo; en fin, verdaderos libros. “Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el Cielo” (The five people you meet in Heaven, 2003), escrito por Mitch Albom, es justamente eso, un libro que recordarás durante muchos años y que, lo que con él aprendas, te servirá para el resto de tu vida.

Esta novela cuenta la historia de Eddie “Mantenimiento”, un anciano quetrabajaba como empleado de mantenimiento en un parque de diversiones llamado Ruby Pier. En él, Eddie se encargaba de revisar los juegos mecánicos que cada verano decenas de niños montaban. Eddie era un hombre rutinario, adolorido, gruñón, con un pasado triste y con una nostalgia en el corazón que le era imposible de esconder. Los niños, por alguna extraña razón sentían un profundo cariño por Eddie...