Coldplay’s Hymn for the Weekend

I rediscovered this today. I needed this song to play. Somehow, it makes me nostalgic for the future. And, I know that doesn’t make any sense. It might be the key that the song is in; every time the chorus comes on I just feel that bittersweet pang of nostalgia. It’s a song that gets me imagining a romanticized, “unrealistic” future that I want to experience so badly. A future where I get to experience the most amazing things and see the most beautiful sights the world has to offer. I wish I could see every sunset and sunrise. Frankly, I wish I could see every single square inch of earth. This wishful thinking only gives me FOMO (fear of missing out), and this song reinforces it. Maybe it’s not nostalgia that I feel while listening to this, but rather a sadness of how unobtainable such a future seems, a realization of how futile my pursuit of such a future is, being only a high schooler and under the jurisdiction of, well, being a high schooler.