I ran away

Yes, the whole audience request thing is rather disappointing, almost no variability. The repertoire of songs you can actually "choose" from is like 4 or 5 songs (In My Place, GPASUYF, Don't Panic, Trouble, Shiver, Til Kingdom Come). I have the feeling they decide beforehand what they wanna play, then search out a presentable Instagram request instead of looking at the requests and genuinely picking out one for its originality or whatever. So disappointed... Still, the C-stage performances did give me goosebumps during the shows I went to and they are by far the best part of the current shows. Unfortunately, many people in the audience only go for the bombast and don't appreciate these moments. Welcome to this thread, @Marchez94 - hope you enjoy it ! Thanks, didnt yet get round to watch it but i love discovering performances from the X&Y Era and it is on my list of videos to watch !

It's true, look how they shine for you

Thanks !

hmm, weird ! But @coldplayisawesome also got a PM, right ?

it was a PM only, got no reply

No, a private one

Glass of water - mentions a letter, which you can write with ink

1.36 ?

Welcome back @alicjanna ! Looking forward to hearing about your adventures !

OMG, me too ! Me too !! I got the same message as @coldplayisawesome !! No way, does that mean I just won something signed by Coldplay ??? *falls of her chair*

yes, your turn !

Fix You - used to be the concert closer

Talk ?

Yeah, it was meant to symbolize the order in which the instruments appear in the spotlight during this song (you can see it most beautifully in Live 2003), and then i put it in backwards again as a further hint !

OK...my song has never been released, it has only been played once during a soundcheck and it is from the AROBTTH Era !

I feel so sorry about your family situation :( I know that feeling alone and having nobody to talk to is a horrible situation. First of all, you should know that you can always talk to us in this thread or via PM if you have any worries. There is one piece of advice that I did want to share with you: About your financial situation and going to university or not. You said you want to accomplish something in your life. I don't know what you feel passionate about (and it is ok if you don't know yet, you will find out with time) but i would strongly advise you to pursue higher education in any way. Yes, there are pretty high tuition fees in the UK, but if you can somehow make it happen, via a loan or maybe even a scholarship, go for it. University degrees are the key to better-paying jobs, and landing a well-paid job will help you to break out of that vicious circle of financial and existential worried and give you the freedom to pursue your interests and, as you said, accomplish something meaningful to you. Having a higher education degree also means having some kind of security in case of unexpected turns in life, or in case something does not work out. Just think of it, even some of the most talented rock musicians of our times first carefully completed their university degrees before launching their career instead of dropping out and pursuing only their band career, and this was an extremely smart move on their part because if their music career had not taken off (which happens to many, many young bands), they would still have had something to fall back upon. (Their names were Mr William Champion, Mr Jonathan Buckland and Mr Christopher Anthony John Martin, I believe ;)) On another note, have you ever considered studying abroad in a European country with low tuition fees (like Germany) ?

I agree that we often worry about the future too much when all will fall into place eventually. I often asked myself "how can people do this and that" as in for example "how can people raise kids, it looks like such a difficult job, how do they teach a child all that it needs, how do people even know what to do??" but people do it all the time and have been doing it for thousands of years. :) I think everyone somehow grows into the tasks at hand, and with age comes new wisdom. When you will be at university for example you will figure out how to handle your student life buthave fears about work life afterwards. Then you finish and you find out how to handle your work life, but now you may wonder how to raise a family or something. Life is full of challenges, but we grow as we go. this is also partly in response to @Mojan s posts !

yes ! OK I was too obviuos haha :D

@Agusssstinnn I like your idea, and I think it should be a separate thread from the Guess Coldplay song because of its specific rules ! :) @42Escapist - is it Now My Feet Won't Touch the ground ?

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@iamsue I'm so sorry to hear about your friend who has lung cancer :( Wish you both lots of strength and that you can share beautiful moments and put more "life" into the remaining time if no more time can be added to the life. The latter is a saying which I often came across in the context of palliative care, and it is so true. Although I still find it hard to imagine how you can achieve happiness when you know your life is coming to an end, I always admire late-stage cancer (or other terminal diseases) patients when they show this strength ! Reading that wording of your sentence just reminded me of something. It's different from your situation actually, it reminds me more of things said by @Batman. I never got to know my mum because she died after my birth. I mean sure, i have seen pictures and heard lots of things about her and once even found an old tape with her voice on it, so i could hear how her voice sounded. But i have grown up knowing that somebody is missing and at the same time not actually feeling this person is missing, because the state of not having her around was all i ever knew. So sometimes I suddenly remember with a pang of guilt that in the last couple of days or even weeks i did not even think of her. Somehow these thoughts are just not present and just do not occur ! But then i feel so terribly guilty about it, because i know that i have thought many more times about some random people or things than of her. I feel like a heartless person then and so guilty and so ashamed of myself :bomb: I also think i have never once cried about her death. Not once. And this makes me feel ashamed too

I hear you ! Can relate to that personally, and it is an issue that bothers me a lot, especially at social events in large groups. But won't elaborate on it now, maybe some other time (don't wanna turn this thread into the I-ran-away-whines-about-her-life-thread ;)

I must admit i have seen your photo on Twitter and you are not "old and wrinkly" !! :)

Midnight ?

I hear you, @Batman ! I know this is a late response but anyway: There is no need to feel stupid about writing about one's feelings, please don't feel pressured to delete this post again. Writing about your feelings is sometimes just necessary and then it is a very good and healthy thing to do in order to clear your mind or feel better. I have often have these feelings that life is pointless or just plain cruel too. Because in the end, what is the purpose of life or why do we even exist ? Since there are ultimately no scientific answers to these things, you can probably only find answers in a spiritual way. I have to say that personally I'm not at all spiritual and don't believe in a higher purpose or any kind of God or God-like being (i would call myself an atheist), so I have no answer to these questions. The more you dwell on the meaning of life and death or the meaning of suffering or cruelty on earth or whatsoever, the unhappier you become however. It's hard to describe, but sometimes I dwell too much on these things and then i feel my head is about to explode, because there are no answers and you can dwell infinitely ! One other thing. If you say you often have phases of indifference, this may also be a protection mechanism from the impact of the actual feelings themselves. You can see it in a positive way, it is a form of resilience of your psyche against life's adversities. Sure, you may seem outwardly like a cold person during these phases, but at least you protect yourself against the pain, which is something you can see as an asset ! About that not feeling emotionally close to the people around you or not "caring" (whatever that is), don't beat yourself up about it. If this is who you are, well then this is who you are. It does not make you a bad person. Again, I think it might be some kind of protection against feelings of attachment, cause feelings of attachment entail vulnerability and potential pain/hurt. As someone who unfortunately easily gets attached to persons (or even things, haha), I think some having some more emotional distance is not a bad thing to have. I am sure that in your very own way, you do care about those friends or relative, you just don't let these feelings come to the surface where they could overtly hurt you. (By the way, that is just my two cents and i hope i am not offending you with anything I wrote, in the end i don't know you in person and can only conjecture based on the posts,so i may be wrong :))