Above is a video of Coldplay’s ‘Lost?’ (from the album ‘Viva La Vida’). Below are some of its lyrics.
Just because I’m losing
Doesn’t mean I’m lost…Just because I’m hurting
Doesn’t mean I’m hurt
Reminds me of how even the worst of times are but processes, that will pass. What matters is not staying stuck in down times, not dwelling in misery, not seeing being lost or hurt as conclusive condemnations. What matters is to let these processes transform and strengthen us. As Stonepeace put it paradoxically –
When we truly realise we are lost is
when we truly realise we need to find a way,
when we truly realise we are not so lost.
The video however, is a short story of an old man basking in his past glories. He attempts to relive them and dies in the process. I would think he was really lost… in his past, instead of living fully in the present. He relived sacrificing himself, but was it a worthy sacrifice the second time round? Or redundant? Maybe he ought to had sacrificed his attachment to his past, to better treasure his final days instead. His sudden death was perhaps from exhilaration more than satisfaction, from living too fully in the past while fully missing the reality of the present. May he have a good rebirth!