what i’ve learned from sangwon's metaphor is that... beauty and pain are not opposites but companions. as a rose cannot exist without its thorns, meaningful experiences often carry both joy and sorrow… both flowers and thorns belong to the same stem, yet people rarely remember them in equal measure. some are left with the wounds, while others remain captivated by the bloom…. 😭
the more i think about sangwon writing “i count the flowers and you keep counting only the thorns,” the sadder it gets. it feels like he’s saying that while he tries to see the good in people, others only focus on his flaws and mistakes instead of all the good things about him 💔
remember how sangwon shared that his caption (“is the tortoise wiser than the hare?”) came from personal feelings he wanted to express through metaphors… so whatever this recent caption means to him, i hope he feels more of the love surrounding him than any meaningless noise, and that he hold onto the fans’ reassurance that he’s so loved and cheered on by so many. i hope he knows that 🥹🤍