stop getting emo challenge: failed
I just got on tumblr for the first time in forever, and it’s like stepping through a time-warp, except it’s only taken me back a short year. here I am, scrolling through past-BTS, realizing how much they’ve achieved, how accomplished they’ve become :’)
and then I remember wings was nearly two years ago, fire is a little over two years ago, bts as a group are about to be five years old. what must it have been like, for a 3 year old bangtan to look back, think “we made it, we’re going to be ok,” just relishing in the fact that they might have carved out a stable place among their peers in the kpop industry after all, after worrying that their group might not survive, not knowing how much higher they would climb. how they would not only have a place in the industry, but a place in history.
sometimes i wonder how we, as a fandom, are able to do what we do, but i think it’s just us repaying bts in the only way we can. bts gave me hope, but bts also gave me some of the loveliest friends i could have ever asked for, and the value of such a gift is honestly immeasurable, i can’t thank them enough
and while i’ve grown to find fan culture tiresome sometimes, i’m also proud and uplifted to see that so many of us hold the same values - humility, compassion, selflessness...
it blows my mind that there will be dissertations, research articles, books written about bts. it blows my mind that they, in 2018, at height of their careers, still have the potential to fly even higher. i can't believe that i get to be here, at 22, bearing witness to something so incredible. it’s an honor to grow up with people like them
