Happy birthday to Kim Sanggyun. Let him never forget how loved he is, how valuable and precious he is to us all. Let him know that every part of him, even the parts he might think are flawed, are a part of him and therefore, we love them so much, just like we do the rest of him. We wouldn't want him without his gentleness. You can see how much he craves peace and respect and love in everything he does. He has an aura that promotes positivity, that promotes camraderie because he wants it so badly, and could you really ever deny him something he wants so much? He is light-hearted and needs to make people happy, in that way the rest of us need to sleep, he needs to be the source of others' happiness. And that's a beautiful thing that we couldn't really do without. We wouldn't want him without his hands, without the way they clutch microphones like a spider's web wraps around its prey except so much more beautiful and forgiving because this is Kim Sanggyun's web we're talking about. As if we didn't expect to be captivated and entranced by every syllable that falls from his lips. As if we didn't beg and hope that we could one day be caught in his weavings of words. We wouldn't want him if he didn't rap like it's everything he wants to do, like it's leisurely and calm and the equivalent of some mindless destressing mechanism. Don't get me wrong--I love an intense rapper as much as the next guy, but there's a quality to Sanggyun's rapping that you can't deny the charm of. As opposed to anger, or sadness, or pain, he spreads this idea of hope and peace just from the way he moves when he raps. His entire being is so hopelessly, amazingly positive. I wouldn't want Kim Sanggyun without him being the model human being he is. In my entire life, I've met one, maybe two, people that I believe exemplify what it is to be a human. And the one I recall most-- Sanggyun--is so kind, so modest and forgiving, so talented and adaptable, so fluid, so beautiful in every possible way. How else would you want our species to go down in history? I wouldn't want him if he hadn't taught me so much about what it means to really love humanity. Because it's not about agreeing with everything, it's not about supporting every little decision mankind makes, is it? It's about promoting what you think is best for the world, about spreading every beautiful part of yourself to every place you can reach and hoping it can meet someone else's innate beauty. Sanggyun taught me that loving the world doesn't have to be some monumental, spiritual thing. Sometimes, it's just a fact, something you say when you introduce yourself. I wouldn't want Sanggyun without him teaching me how to love him the way he loves all of us. I'm not sure if I've quite got it down, but I'm definitely on my way. But I've lied, because what I really wouldn't want is a world without Sanggyun, and I count my blessings everyday that somehow I was given the opportunity to be alive at the same time as him, and how lucky is that? It's amazingly lucky. And for all of the future fans, I wish Sanggyun a thousand more birthdays, so he can touch more lives, and make more people love him, because you know if he only has enough time he could get the entire world behind him. I love him so much. Happy 23rd birthday, Kim Sanggyun. This year, your fans will find themselves blinded by your light again, and again, we'll hope to god we have the power to keep your light from flickering. Continue being you Sanggyun. We'll take it from there.
