Everyone Must Find A Place

Coldplay has the most amazing lyrics. Seriously, they always apply perfectly to whatever situation I’m in. They are so cool. Anyways, an amazing friend, told me about Politik, by Coldplay. I selected some cool parts of these amazing lyrics [click for the whole thing]:

Give me time and give me space
Give me peace of mind and trust

Give me strength, reserve control
Give me heart and give me soul
Wounds that heal and cracks that fix

Amazing right? I really love the first part of these lines - they are exactly how I feel right now. I just need peace of mind and somebody to trust after all the things I’ve been through lately.

The second part is also very interesting. The moment I read it, it reminded me of the great novel Brave New World. The book is about a new perfect world where everything is just good, and you don’t get to experience bad things anymore. The main character [John], on the other hand, comes from another world, where he did experience things like pain or sickness.

So John believes that a world where everything is perfect is just not good. It’s not ok if you never hurt, it is not ok if you never cry and it is not ok if you never feel unhappy. Because if you never experience those feelings, you will also never truly value happiness! I mean, if you don’t know that there is something called pain - how can you truly be happy when you’re not in pain?

When I read this book, I believed it to be só true. The contrast between things makes you feel those things more real. So lately I’ve been reading Sophie’s World and I read something about a philosophy-guy named Heraclitus. And he said the same thing, he said that this world is filled with contradictions - it’s part of this life. He says:

If we would never be sick, we wouldn’t know what it would feel like to be healthy. If we were never hungry, we wouldn’t appreciate our food that much. If there would never be war, we wouldn’t value peace and if it would never be winter we wouldn’t see spring.

And this is só true. Those contradictions in your life, those contrasts, those moments - they make you feel alive. They make you value everything around you só much more. We need those moments to love our lives, to see our blessings.

And lately I’ve just been realizing how amazing it is to have good friends who really care about you. I missed this so much in my relationship with Tedo and I just feel so blessed that the people around me actually care about me. If it’s been raining, I just love the sun even more than I already did. And if I haven’t seen my friends for a long time, I appreciate them even more. God is just showing me all these blessing through the things that I’ve missed out on so much.

So please, give me heart and give me soul. I want to live life to the fullest, even if that includes getting hurt. Give me wounds and let them heal to teach me how to value health. Give me cracks and let them fix to realize how I blessed I really am.

Everyone must find a place.

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