🩸D-7 to #WorldBloodDonorDay 14 June!
#GiveBlood — because somewhere out there, someone needs you.
This year, a few familiar faces are joining us! Guess who…
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To our dearest NI-KI,
Every year, we tell ourselves we’ll find a way to make our message for you shorter, and every year we fail. Maybe because there’s no simple way to talk about someone we have watched for so long. When we think about you, we think about the boy who left home to chase a dream, the trainee who kept showing up with no guarantees, and the 14 year old we met through I-LAND. Then we look at you now and realize that somewhere along the way, our youngest grew up. It’s a simple fact, yet it still catches us off guard. We spent so many years calling you our baby that sometimes we forget time was moving for you too.
When we first met you, you were so young that it almost feels impossible looking back. At thirteen, most people are still figuring out who they are, surrounded by familiar faces and the comfort of home. But your world became much bigger much earlier. You left behind your family and everything you had known because you believed in a dream strongly enough to risk everything familiar for it. Looking at where you are now, it is easy to admire the success, but what moves us most is the courage it took to begin. Before the stages, the achievements, and the recognition, there was simply a boy who believed in his dream enough to leave home for it.
You stayed through difficult days and years of growing up in front of the world. You kept going when nothing was guaranteed. People often talk about your talent, but when we think about you, we think about your determination. The way you never settle, always finding new ways to challenge yourself, even after reaching milestones that many spend a lifetime chasing.
Sometimes it feels like we blinked and six years passed. We still remember watching the youngest member of ENHYPEN debut, and now we’re watching a young man who carries himself with a confidence and maturity earned through time and experience. You’re still the youngest, and you always will be. We’ll always see the boy who made us smile and want to protect him. But alongside him stands someone who has grown into his own person, carrying responsibility with care and pursuing his craft with the same passion that brought him here in the first place.
That’s why we feel so confident when we think about your future. Everything that brought you here is still alive inside you. Your passion for dancing has never faded. Your dedication to your craft has never felt shallow. Your love for your members and your appreciation for ENGENEs have always felt genuine. The reasons people believe in you are real, and they show in the way you work, the way you speak about the people you love, and the way you continue to give your all every time you step onto a stage.
You’ve already come farther than most people could’ve imagined when they first met you, but what makes us emotional is knowing there is still so much ahead of you. Your story is still being written. With every year, you continue to grow, learn, and discover new parts of yourself. If anything, everything you’ve achieved so far only makes us more certain that your best days are still ahead of you.
Today we are not just celebrating how far you have come. We are celebrating the fact that we have been lucky enough to witness it. We met a young boy with a dream, and six years later, we’re watching that same boy stand before the world as an adult. Somewhere along the way, while we were busy cheering for, protecting, and worrying about the youngest, he grew up.
No matter how many years pass, you’ll always be our youngest. But today, as we celebrate your 6th anniversary, we’re looking at you with so much pride because you’ve grown into an adult we couldn’t be more grateful for. You’ve come so far, and we know this is only the beginning.
We can’t wait to spend every year ahead of us watching you become even more of who you’re meant to be.🤍
SIXcessful Years With NI-KI
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