Lyceum Northwestern University Tapuac District, Dagupan City Second Semester Ventura, Dranyl Eve C. March 23, 2022 BSED-English III ‘borahae’ Sidewalks, footsteps, bone-chilling. December 2022. That was the month my heartbeat doesn’t prepare for like I’m on a horse ride. I know you’re curious about what really happened to me. Let’s just say that I’m browsing my TikTok after bath, and these seven Korean men catch my full attention. Wearing mustard yellow suits with the blend of blacks, shades on their salmon eyes, dancing through the beat and it goes like “smooth like butter and rolling on like a rolling stone”. Do you want to know an inspiring story? It’s just a three-minute video, but I swear that video shakes my whole world upside down. I have a confession to tell. I am not really a fan of boy groups specifically kpop. I always say that “they’re not my type,” “baryotic”, and many more. But, after watching that jaw-dropping video, my index finger started to click the phone on my screen and search for the “story behind that Korean boy group.” I know it sounds, unbelievable, and I just swallow what I said about them. Here I am admiring them with their lifestyle before, how they start as a group, characters, attitudes, electrifying music that really stabs you with realizations in life. Heaven gives me seven reasons to live. Seven people who taught me how to love myself. A farmer before but have a bigger view on himself and decided to search the quest of life in Seoul Korea, Kim Taehyung. Oldest member but young at heart, the laughter that is like listening to my favorite song, the worldwide handsome, Kim Seokjin. An English speaker of the group, high intellectual quality, and the best leader of the best group, Kim Namjoon. A street dancer but doesn’t lose his hope to be on stage and perform worldwide. His mother believed in his capability, and she auditioned his son without knowing is the best decision his mother made for him for his entire life, Jung Hoseok. A chubby face and body before that always bullied by his classmate especially the love of his life, battled with depression but cannot be shaken to pursue his dreams, Park Jimin. Fluffy eyes and innocent face brought him to Seoul at an early age fighting for his dream, the golden maknae, Jeon Jungkook. Lastly, a service crew before being fooled by his girlfriend rejected thousands of his song compositions but never give up on his music career, the best rapper in the world, Min Yoongi. It sounds apocalyptic but thank you for healing me each day. I know that you don’t know that I exist maybe destiny might give them to me, but destiny also don’t give me to them. I always dream of purple skies above a garden surrounded by butterflies. In deep oceans blue and grey, during spring floating with leaves. I always doubt myself if I can make it right. I wish upon an ethereal glow of a warm purple moon, that one day our universe will pave its way and our string will be entangled. You’ll forever be the cause of my euphoria that produces oxytocin to my favorite song and onomatopoeia. There will come a time that your voice will be someone’s personal lullabies but thank you for completing the maze of my life.
