Being a writer means deleting a paragraph you love because it doesn’t serve the story—then saving it somewhere safe in case the story changes its mind.
I wish more adults showed kids how to tie their passions to a more stable career. Can’t make it to the NBA? Why not go into sports law, sports medicine, or sports/entertainment consulting?
I fucking love people who become more themselves with age. Stranger taste. Clearer boundaries. Louder laugh. Less interest in impressing random people. Watching somebody slowly stop auditioning for the world is fucking beautiful.
At the beginning of the tour when you all attacked BTS for not doing full choreography, none of you understood the point at all. We weren’t defending them just because we blindly support everything they do.
We defended them because choreography is exhausting as hell. Every single move, every technique, every second has to be timed, practiced, calculated, repeated until it drains them completely. And for what? So you can sit there entertained by the performance while they’re treated like machines built to satisfy you, running from one choreography to the next until they’re completely burned out?
This tour proved everything. They started genuinely enjoying the stage again. They started expressing themselves freely, acting like actual human beings instead of overworked robots trying to meet impossible expectations.
Now they’re laughing on stage, messing around, randomly throwing in little moves they still remember from old songs, interacting with ARMY, joking with each other..and THAT is BTS. THAT is what the connection between them and ARMY is supposed to feel like.
You know what was happening behind the scenes before? Endless exhaustion from doing multiple intense choreographies every single concert, over and over again through entire tours. So maybe start trusting their choices for once.
I hope they stay this happy and comfortable. If they feel like dancing, then dance. If not, then don’t. Their presence, their smiles, their energy, and the way they interact with us is already more than enough.