I found BTS by accident. I rarely watch talk shows especially if I don't know the person being interviewed. However, one video with a Kpop boy band has popped up in my YT recommendations a while ago. At first I hesitated but eventually watched it since I liked the host. +
Hey Guys
I need your help(don't know how many of you'll read this)
I'm looking for this lovely kind
Pretty American lady who was sitting next to me during Brussels day2
My seat was Bolc S 5-1
We had good talk and laugh so the concert was even better and more fun. She's from Miami
I need time to properly write what happened in Brussels D2, but I still want to share what I can for now
I became ARMY with ON, after I crisis-bonded with the Tannies during a continental move that almost broke my body & my mind. This was also at the start of the pandemic
So when the opening lines of ON began, something in me broke
Tears flowed down my face. It was the first time I had really cried during a BTS concert. I was thankful people around me could not fully hear my open sobs beneath the roar of our singing
Then they continued with For Youth & the tears shifted. They were no longer only mine
The song carried the tears we shed after that FESTA dinner, the tears during those years apart & the tears of watching this whole fβking world continue to unravel, including in the very countries I once called home
It was as if their ν₯ (heung) the spark of joy, rhythm, playfulness & excitement, had loosened something in my ν (han). And for a moment, we rose into μ λͺ (shinmyeong) that ecstatic release when grief, rhythm, body & collective feeling become something larger
Their ments confirmed that I was not alone in this feeling
With Please & Into the Sun, I cried again as I remembered what it took me to get here. My own Amazing Race. The cancellations, the misdirections, the almost-not-making-it over & over again as I navigated through 3 countries over 24 hours
How I painfully looked into the sun for the first half of each show & knew I would do it again
And again
βIβll follow you into the sun, into the sunβ
I ugly-cried & sang because this was a catharsis, a kind of liberation I seldom experienced
Afterwards, I wondered if I had imagined it all
Then, while standing in a metro line, I saw people with soundcheck lanyards around their necks & asked them about their experience
They told me that they & the people around them began weeping during For Youth
I became ARMY with ON
I held on with For Youth
And with Into the Sun, I reaffirm that home
@SaraBangtan07 Thank you for sharing! I can relate as I became an ARMY during ON as well. And I was physically and mentally exhausted at the time too. It was my first BTS (OT7) concert yesterday, so I cried a lot π