"Paradise" by the one and only Coldplay.
(I love Coldplay if you didn't already know that)
If you haven't heard this song you should do it. In fact you should do it right about now!
*Listen to Paradise on youtube or some other website and then proceed to read the rest of this post. :)
Sometimes I think of life as an expandable pebble. It can stay small and light and you enjoy this because there is no pressure or weight burdening you. Plus it is pleasantly pocket size. So it sits in your pocket without you even noticing its presence. But then something happens and what was once a small pebble has transformed into a 12 ton boulder that is grinding your bones together; causing bruises and breaks. It requires all your strength to overcome and persevere but you only have so long before it crushes you. It knocks you down and you fall to the earth. Your sweat and tears mix with the dust of the ground you are crushed on. The 12 ton boulder remains on top of you but you feel nothing unless you try to get up off the ground...It is always hardest to get up after life knocks you down.
I love Coldplay's new song because it describes what I tend to feel when I have hit rock bottom in this sea of life. When life gets too dark and hard to live through each day, sleep becomes a comfort. I long for a paradise where I can escape all of my problems. "life goes on it gets so heavy, the wheel breaks the butterfly, every tear a waterfall, in the night the stormy night she closed her eyes, in the night the stormy night away shed fly" But like he sings in his song, "I know the sun must set to rise". And then the song changes to "THIS could be paradise" instead of dreaming about paradise.
I love this song. Not only because I love to dance crazy to it but because it has a beautiful message within it.
Trials end, just not always in a convenient amount of time. When life has you flat on the ground with the weight of the world on your back, even though it is excruciatingly painful to get back up, you MUST. That expandable pebble doesn't work one way, it can shrink back down again. Try to focus less on the problems you are dealing with, bear them the best you can. Try to make a paradise out of your life now even with the weight on your shoulders, and that is when the 12 ton boulder starts shrinking. Laughter is definitely one of the best medicines.
Paradise isn't only a place you can reach in your dreams, you can make your life a paradise too.
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