The first time I saw Mark live with NCT 127 at The Link in LA, October 2022.
Much has happened since & now a new chapter awaits you. As a fan, I’m missing you since your letter on Friday. As a mother, I’m so proud of your decision. May all the good wishes be a cloak & a well +
venus williams on alex eala & their dubs partnership at bad homburg 🎾
“she’s great. her parents are great. i got to meet them too. overall they seem to be very nice humans which helps you be better tennis players i think. she’s very competitive on the court
i think we were a great team. we just needed a little more time together. we never even got the chance to practice before we played the doubles. i hope we get the chance to team back up again”
h/t to ms @/DYANCASTILLEJO
the fact HAECHAN already foreseen how JAEHYUN will just tease him back in this content bcs 🍑 role is 🐻 (got a taste of his own medicine 🤣)
“i feel like Jaehyun hyung...
i think i'll be made fun of today”
“i'm being made fun of 😭”
JAEHYUN got immersed imitating HAECHAN he's like "WAIT, WAS I BEING TOO TOUGH?" & clarifying things at the end 😅
🍑: from push-up i felt i should stop here, if i do more it'd be bad for me—I care alot about 🐻 he's my dear dongsaeng~ i know u know it rly well & will feel it too
If you’re a Christian genuinely wondering why it’s bad for the state of Texas to require Bible study in public schools, imagine how you’d feel if your family lived in New York City and Mamdani required Quran study in public schools.
My neighbor's kid just quit the high school swim team after three years of being the slowest in every event. Kid was devastated. Thought he just didn't have it.
His dad, who swam competitively back in the day, couldn't figure it out. The kid had decent form, He trained hard. But his times were consistently 15-20% slower than kids with half his work ethic.
Out of frustration, the dad took him to a sports medicine clinic to get evaluated. Maybe asthma, Maybe something structural.
Doctor runs him through some tests. Watches him swim, Pulls the dad aside after and says: "Your son's goggles are filled with water, He's basically swimming blind and has been compensating by lifting his head every third stroke to see where he's going. It's adding massive drag."
Turns out the goggles were cheap ones from a big-box store. Seal was shot, Had been for over a year. Kid just thought that's how goggles worked, that everyone swam with water sloshing around their eyes.
They bought him a proper pair. First practice back, he dropped 18 seconds off his freestyle time.
Eighteen seconds, Because of a $12 piece of equipment nobody thought to replace.
Coach moved him up two lanes within a month.
The lesson stuck with me, How many people are out there right now grinding themselves into the dirt, convinced they're just not good enough, when really they're just working with broken tools and nobody's bothered to check?
Sometimes the problem isn't you.