Fingers of Fate: An Inspirational Tale

"Excuse me?"

The angel looked up at me, a look of slight irritation on his face.

"Could you tell me, who are these people? I've never heard of any of them before, I don't think that I've even met any of these people?"

Taking the book from my hands, he turned so that we both could view it easily. "Here.." He said, pointing with one long spindly finger.

"This is the list of those souls whom you impacted in a meaningful way, ever changing them, for the better or the worse. Though you may not recognize their names, nor even know who they were matters not - something you did, something you said, some action that you took however meaningless to you, effected them greatly.

Look here, this man, "Johnathan Weitz". You don't know him because you never met him. You never had the chance too, he was born twenty-seven years after your death, see here? And here, this is how you impacted him, changing his very soul:

Johnathan Weitz, 22, on the brink of suicide read a single short story online. Deep inside of him, this story stirred a passion to write. A passion to live."

With icy blue eyes, the angel met my stare.

"You wrote that story. You changed the fate of Johnathan's soul, the direction of his entire life."

"You see, you never realize quite how many lives that you touch, even beyond death. It's the one thing that I wish more of you understood, how precious a life can be."