A book which a close friend of mine had borrowed me - the five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom.
It's all about a guy named Eddie, it begins at the end. He ended his life in a amusement park by trying to save a little girl from accident. Now he is in heaven, throughout the journey in heaven, he is going to meet 5 people - Who are they and why he needs to meet them?
First Person - The Blue Man
A man that Eddie met during his young age, however he was too young to remember who is the guy. After a long chat, he finally came to ask the guy what killed him, the blue man said: "You did."
His real name was Joseph Corvelzchik, a nervous child then young man, the son of a tailor in a small Polish village. He lived in poor and forced to drop out from school and followed his dad to work in a sweatshop. The workers in the sweatshop don't like him and screamed that he was worthless, his father had to plead them like a street beggar to make his son stays. Since that day, his father refused to talk to blue man as he felt his son had shamed him. Therefore he went to a chemist and seek something for his nerves, the chemist gave him a bottle of silver nitrate and he had it every night, as he assume he was not ingesting enough therefore he tool more and more - that's how his skin turned to blue. He was being chased out from the factory because the foremen said he scared the other workers.
Then, he found a saloon where he can hide. One night, a group of carnival men were in black discovered him and gave him a new name - Edward. He was asked to perform a 'show' and his shows are rather simple, just to sit on the sage, half undressed, as people walked past and the barker told them how pathetic he was. For this, he was able to earn a few coins in his pocket.
A rainy Sunday morning in July, inthe late 1920s, a kid and friends are tossing a baseball. The ball flies over the kid's head and out into the street. The kid chases after it and runs in front of an automobile. The car screeches, veers, and just missed him. Another angle from the same story, the driver - a man borrowed from a friend to practice his driving. Although the man somehow regains control but the man's body is still affected, the man feels dizzy and his head drops momentarily. He skids along an avenue then turns down an alley. His vehicle rolls until it collides with the rear of a parked truck.His arm throbs. His chest hurts. The alley is empty and no one notices him. The blood from his coronary arteries no longer flows to his heart.
One story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily and the other ends badly.
"You see?" the Blue Man whispered, having finished the story from his point of view, "Little boy?"
Eddie felt a shiver.
"Oh no," he whispered.
Ms Boring said...
Ever wonder why will a man turn blue? What is silver nitrate?
Before the invention of penicillin in the 1930s, colloidal silver was commonly used by doctors as an antibiotic. In 1999, the FDA banned the use of colloidal silver in over the counter drugs. The problem is that it can collect in the skin and organs and cause severe damage. But it's still sold as a supplement; Web sites also offer manuals telling people how to make their own.
Real life of a blue man - Paul Karason
