“Nobody said it was easy

It’s such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh, take me back to the start”

Being a diehard Coldplay fan I’ve played this song a million times, quite literally!

Today was different though,

It felt like a first time,

You know how you experience all these “firsts” in life... First day of school, first love, first kiss, first time having sex and any other memorable firsts

I was procrastinating since its Friday and casually playing some music and pretending to be busy at work, when it hit me…

Emotionally, mentally, and physically!

It felt like I was listening to this song for the very first time

I kept replying it and watching the video over and over again.. It was like The Scientist and Coldplay took over my heart and soul

I know that the video portrays death and in some way that’s how I felt

Not being able to be with you killed me; I say this because it did more than just break my heart. I lost faith in love and hope and happiness

So to me listening to this song now,

Reminded me of my own version of death…

The slow and painful kind

“No one ever said it would be this hard”,

Honestly this makes me want to ask the world why?! Why no one warned me before? Why no one spoke about all these barriers? Why no one ever said only love wasn’t enough?

I don’t fully understand why we can’t be together yet.

If two people truly love each other, shouldn’t that be enough?

My only hope is that someday, people who love each other could find a way to be together despite gender, race, culture and whatever other barriers they come across in life, because LOVE should be a good enough reason.

For what’s life without love?

How I wish things were much simpler

Like back when we were friends, how easy it was to tease each other and how uncomplicated things were. I don’t know when or how we will get there, or if we ever will.

But I sincerely hope that maybe someday we will, so until then I’ll keep on singing

“Oh take me back to the start”.