AND HOW ABOUT LEAVING JUNGKOOK ALONE FOR MORE REASONS THAN ONE...
Since the last few Wlives that Jungkook has done, I have seen on different platforms fans saying that they are worried about Jungkook, that Jungkook is depressed, that he is sad, that he is not working, that it is obvious that he is not okay. Others say it's obvious that the agency is holding him hostage in that flat they rented for him. That they aren't giving him activities or work. That he's being held in isolation. Many assumptions, each one worse and more dramatic than the last.
BTS debuted in 2013 and since then never stopped working until 2021 really, with a long break in 2019. Since 2013 it's been rehearsals, performances, concerts, shows, planes and cars in different countries and different continents. Year after year. They never knew anything else. They missed birthdays, Christmases, new years away from their families and friends. They missed the chance to live a normal life. As normal as a young man could live, although I'm sure they see it as a big little sacrifice to achieve their dreams is still true that for 8 years they really knew nothing else. They had no routine beyond their life as a member of BTS.
Jungkook made his debut at the age of 15. Although all the boys in the group were quite young, Jungkook was the youngest, he was a child, a teenager if we want to be more precise.
Adolescence is one of the most crucial stages in life for any person. It is at this stage that we really begin to know ourselves. When many begin to become independent in a certain way. To show who we are as individuals. It is at that stage that we begin to discover tastes, where we begin to form lasting friendships in some cases. Jungkook didn't have that. Not really. Jungkook had to manoeuvre his adolescence in his career. With his work. And yes, many teenagers in the entertainment industry do the same, but we all know how hard bts worked in the early years of his career. How demanding it was for them. How exhausting it was. Jungkook then, at that crucial stage in anyone's life found a routine basically created for him. BTS became almost his life. The other members were his family and all the entourage that worked with them, too.
Now, after so long that routine has changed, or not, stopped. It disappeared. Jungkook now finally has time to rest. To go out with friends, to meet new friends or just to sleep. I don't want to say that Jungkook is finding himself again but almost.
Jungkook is an introvert who is almost asocial, as unexpected as it may seem. That's why I believe Jungkook is not depressed or lost, he is simply living his introverted life to the fullest.
Jungkook is a peculiar person. He is very different from the other members, although he shares characteristics with some of them. Jungkook likes to try new things, even if they lead to nothing. He likes to be alone. He doesn't seem to like to socialise much, which is ironic considering his career. He has quite a different sleep schedule, the consequence of spending so much time in different countries with different time zones and having quite an active mind, I'm sure.
Jungkook is quite a sensitive person. Emotional.
So, although I want to believe that all those people, those fans who say they are worried and who are diagnosing Jungkook with every mental illness they can think of are doing it because they love him, I can't help but think that they are just not used to this Jungkook. To that part of Jungkook that he has shown us in his Wlives and that they are being selfish.
This fandom is used to seeing the guys doing Vlives from a hotel room somewhere in the world. They're used to Jungkook's random Lives where one day he was singing and the next he was eating. This fandom is used to bts always working. Always creating content that increases their dopamine levels. This fandom is used to believing that they know the boys 100% and therefore, this Jungkook we are seeing is not the real Jungkook, this Jungkook is flawed so something is wrong.
The funny thing about all this is that Jungkook's recent Wlives reminds me of one he did in 2019, remember? I call it the Wine Vlive. Jungkook got tipsy that day too - I don't think he was drunk that day just like I don't think he was drunk in the recent Wlives - he got a bit emotional and a bit philosophical too but I don't remember reading that the fandom worried about him, I don't remember reading that the fandom thought he was depressed, that something was wrong with him and they didn't because the next day there was a concert, the next day he would go to work with a smile on his face telling his fans that everything was fine.
I think it's time to really understand this new chapter.
I can't say for sure what Jungkook is living at the moment, I'm not that bold but as an introvert, with a horrible sleep schedule who doesn't like to leave her room I can relate to Jungkook and that's why I think he is not sick, on the contrary. Introverts are often misunderstood and misjudged, especially when is someone like Jungkook, many I'm sure find it contradictory and perhaps impossible.
It's possible that the change of routine affected him in some way too, as I said, Jungkook is a pretty sensitive person and as such he probably feels a bit more than the rest of the people around him, but it's also true that Jungkook has a very supportive family, friends who care about him and an agency that cares about him too, even though many would say they don't. If something were wrong with Jungkook, do you really think no one would be doing anything to help him, or is it just the hero complex that some in the fandom have that is making them believe all that?
Just because Jungkook doesn't seem to have any projects at the moment doesn't mean anything. Stop comparing him to the other members, the idea of this second chapter is for the guys to do what they want to and if Jungkook doesn't want to do anything, that is okay too!
One thing that the K-pop industry is criticised for a lot is that it demands a lot from the artists. That they overwork them and here we have a lot of people who are basically demanding that Jungkook leave his flat and go to work because that's the only way they'll believe that he's okay. They're doing the same thing that I'm sure at some point they've criticized.
We don't even know 15% of BTS members' lives. We really don't. We don't really know them. We don't know their routines, we didn't know them before when they had group activities and we definitely don't know them now. Stop theorising so much about a person's mental health just because in the middle of the night they decided to sing a few songs for their fans, having a beer or two. Stop believing that something is wrong because Jungkook is not behaving the way you want him to.
If something is going on in Jungkook's life and we are meant to know about it, we will know about it. Leave Jungkook alone. Stop obsessing about what he does, who he is or who he is not with. Let Jungkook live the life he wants to live right now.
Never forget that you are just fans and he is a human being too.
Note: Sorry for any grammatical or spelling mistakes, my English is not the best and sometimes I struggle when making long posts because of it.
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