[Eng Trans] 2026.06.27: Youngjae's story Challenge - D-212
@ChoiArs_YJ@YOUNGJAExArs
Source: MBC Radio GOT7's Youngjae Best Friend, 27 June 2024
Soulmate: Because of the trauma I went through when I was young even though I'm already 30 yrs old. It’s still so vivid. And I hate myself so much for always getting scared and hiding away. I try, in my own way, to act like I'm okay and not affected by it but in the end, I always end up going back into that trauma again. Being alone isn't easy. But even so, it's not like someone else can live my life for me, right? So no matter what other people say, I'm going to try to gather my strength again so I can feel more confident and proud of my own life.
Youngjae: That's right. Something like that can happen because of a certain trauma. If I were to compare it to my own experience and talk about it, for me, singing used to be something I didn't really worry about at all. As a singer, I wasn't scared of it. I enjoyed it a lot and I always had confidence in it.
But after I made one mistake once, something like this happened to me. Even if I was singing while I was sick, I could still sing well. No matter what I did, I could still sing well. Even if I ate too much the day before and my stomach felt bloated, I could still sing well like always.
But there was this one time when I was in America and I was really sick. Like, extremely sick. And even then, I thought, "I'll probably still be able to sing well, just like I always have." So I went on and sang. But after that, all of a sudden, on stage, my voice kept cracking and breaking and I kept going off-key. So after that incident, I ended up developing a trauma of my own because I was scared that if I went on stage, it might happen again.
But what I came to realize was that as time passed, the more I had to face moments like that and the more I faced the moment that had become a trauma for me, even just little by little… I mean, I wouldn't dare compare my situation to yours but in my case, I was able to overcome it a little. And because of that, I started thinking, "Why was I so scared back then?" Even now, I'm still a little scared. But even so, I started thinking that I should face it and slowly overcome it. Because if I keep going on like that, a lot of the time, it ends up being me slowly eating away at myself.
So I'm saying this because I really want you to cherish yourself more. Rather than struggling through it all alone, I think it would be good to try talking about it with other people more often. I also talked about it with my friends and I tried talking about it with parent too. So I hope you can talk more with the people around you and slowly let it out like that. Fighting.
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