square one...

life can be like a game at times. things happen that you can't control. you roll your dice and sometimes you land on a spot that sends you back or sets you back even as far back as square one. you can choose to view it negatively like "oh no not again" or "i have to start over again?!". you can choose to look at it as a new beginning. another chance to start over. refresh. reboot. retry. i have something brand new available to me. i'm picking up the dice and i'm smiling as i roll a new turn... a new chance... from square one.

i'm attaching the lyrics to coldplay's square one (from x&y cd)
SQUARE ONE
You're in control, is there anywhere you wanna go?
You're in control, is there anything you wanna know?
The future's for discovering
The space in which we're travelling
From the top of the first page
To the end of the last day
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

Under the surface trying to break through
Deciphering the codes in you
I need a compass, draw me a map
I'm on the top, I can't get back

Whoa whoa

The first line on the first page
To the end of the last page
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

You just want
Somebody listening to what you say
Oh, you just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

Is there anybody out there who
Is lost and hurt and lonely too
Are they bleeding all your colours into one?
and if you come undone
As if you've been run through
Some catapult it fired you
You wonder if your chance will ever come
Or if you're stuck in square one

...

yes, undone and run through...
yes, wondering from square one,
but full of hope and wonder

i'm still here
(whispered, but piercing through to you)
game on