DAY6 Jae’s words of wisdom; a thread

“On this path, though I may encounter hardships, may I be reminded that we walk by faith and not by sight.” — DAY6 JAE

“When things are out of your hands and you know you’ve done everything you can, have no regrets. Never doubt yourself because someone tells you otherwise.” — DAY6 JAE

“I think there are things in life that can’t be helped. As long as you can tell yourself you tried your absolute best, I feel like we got a right to be happy.” — DAY6 JAE

“We owe it to ourselves to be happy. Instead of looking for reasons we’re not, maybe we’re better off looking for reasons we should be?” — DAY6 JAE

“For everyone that's lost, afraid, hurt or confused, it's okay. We all are. It'll take time but we'll be okay. I promise.” — DAY6 JAE

“Things get hard. It’s never going to be easy doing what you love. You got this! Just know and believe in yourself and you got it.” — DAY6 JAE

“Your standards go up because this was what you’ve been wanting to do. You’ve been dreaming about this. Just keep your mind open and remember that this was your goal, and you reached it, and you deserve every bit of pride.” — DAY6 JAE

“We should learn many things when we’re young. Learn as we die several times, learn to not die the next time, and learn how to present better results.” — DAY6 JAE

“Be joyful, be sad, laugh, cry and live everyday to its fullest. Let your emotions remind your mind that you are alive.” — DAY6 JAE

“Don’t try to be better than you are. Don’t sacrifice the color of your strengths. Focus on showing them what you got and how you’re gonna progress from there.” — DAY6 JAE

“Just grind so at the end of the day, no matter what your outcome is, you can say that you’ve done your best and you will find that you are satisfied.” — DAY6 JAE

“Working hard is super important but working smart is even more important. You could do the same thing a hundred times the wrong way, you’ll still have the wrong answer, right? You do it one time the right way, you’re done.” — DAY6 JAE

“This applies to every career choice in life. Ask yourself why do you want that profession. Do you really want it because you‘re really passionate about the subject? Make sure that you’re passionate about it ‘cause every matter is not gonna matter.” — DAY6 JAE

“For the things that are over and done with, or for the things you can do better without stress, for the things that you can improve upon but have made an error in the past, shoulder shrug. Just let it go.” — DAY6 JAE

“I guess I’ve come to the realization that all we really need is contentment. Life’s just the pursuit of the ability to be satisfied with what you have... It’s hella hard but I guess the epiphany’s a start.” — DAY6 JAE

“Been thinking that the best lessons are in your worst mistakes. Don’t feel great but hey, I become a better person at the end of it.” — DAY6 JAE

“Do whatever you want and just know that there’s going to be struggles. Life isn’t always easy.” — DAY6 JAE

“Doing well opens doors for you. Doing well in your field allows you to do other things that you wanna do in other fields. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to do well, it’s just that I want to enjoy the process more.” — DAY6 JAE

“Dream as far as you want. Dream as high as you can.” — DAY6 JAE

“College is when you figure a lot about yourself and that happens through the people that you surround yourself with and things you experience so experience a lot, try to realize what you wanna do and who you are as a person ‘cause that’s where you’re gonna do it.” — DAY6 JAE

“If you want to be respected, you have to respect others first.” — DAY6 JAE

“What's beautiful is only beautiful if you want it to be beautiful. So you choose what's good & you choose what's bad. If you decide that today, no matter what happens, is gonna be a great day then it's gonna be a great day.” — DAY6 JAE

“It doesn’t matter what anybody says. Some people are like ‘You gotta be normal. You can’t do it this way.’ or ‘You can’t do this because that’s not the normal way to do it.’ Forget them! Who cares! You are you and they are them. You live your own life.” - DAY6 JAE

“It’s never easy, life shouldn’t be that easy. Everyone has a reason and I’m so glad that we are able to be each other’s reason.” — DAY6 JAE

“Do whatever you want to do. Don’t let anybody tell you anything else because what you want to do is gonna be your happiness.” — DAY6 JAE

“Do you and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise ‘cause that’s what’s gonna get you through this life. Believe in yourself... If you lose who you are, then who are you, or more importantly, what do you really have left?” — DAY6 JAE

“You need to take the hate that you get, the hate that is created and generated inside of you.. and recycle that into your want for success. The more that you’re able to take that anger that they send and make that into energy, the more you’re gonna succeed in life.” — DAY6 JAE

“You may fail, life is kinda hard. People trip up all the time but honestly, you can wake up tomorrow and you can be alright. So you can be happier.” — DAY6 JAE

“Don’t ever call your vision a dream. Dreams are unattainable wants you see during sleep. Call it a goal ‘cause goals are real.” — DAY6 JAE

“Not everyday's going to be sunshines and rainbows. One must learn to perceive light through the clouds.” — DAY6 JAE

“Be yourself. Don’t change for anyone other than yourself.” — DAY6 JAE

“It’s easy to find beauty in something already beautiful. Real beauty lies in finding grandeur in something that is not.” — DAY6 JAE

"I think crying is a good thing. Especially when you’re stressed, I feel like being able to bang your emotions out in a certain way just makes you feel better in general." — DAY6 JAE

“Know your rights and don’t let anyone take them away from you.” — DAY6 JAE

“You are your greatest motivation.” — DAY6 JAE

“Be who you want to be and that’ll become who you are.” — DAY6 JAE

“For everybody that’s hurting or that has hard times or struggles with things, whether it’s school, whether it’s people, whether it’s emotions.. we’re here for you. Everyone’s here for you. No one’s perfect.” — DAY6 JAE

“If you like someone, just do it man. Just tell them. Honestly, there’s nothing to lose. 90% of the times, it’s gonna work better for you.” — DAY6 JAE

“Don’t just dream. Set goals. Dreams are improbable possibilities. Goals are possible possibilities you work out one step at a time.” — DAY6 JAE

“If you want something, take it. Leap, ‘cause sometimes you’ll be surprised how safely you land on the other side.” — DAY6 JAE

“The result is important, but sometimes more so for the development of yourself, it’s not the result that matters, it’s the process.” — DAY6 JAE

“Everyone’s words, whether online or off, carry weight. Before u post something, realize that you need to take responsibility for what you’ve written. Don’t ever think “Oh what i said didn’t matter”, because it did and you will take responsibility, one way or another.” — DAY6 JAE

“It's not really worth releasing your opinion about something if it's not going to do anything.” — DAY6 JAE

“If you want something, go all in for it. 50%, 75%, 99%, don’t cut it. Stomp on the accel and you might be surprised how long that car goes.” — DAY6 JAE

“You gotta do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.” — DAY6 JAE

“Beauty is pain.” — DAY6 JAE

“To feel is to live, right? Let your emotions remind you that you are alive. How beautiful is it that we get to feel joy everyday? How beautiful is it that we get to feel sadness? ‘Cause in order for you to feel sadness, you have to understand that there was joy.” — DAY6 JAE

“You know you’re real if you tell them the honest truth and not just the positive all the time. Saving everybody’s feelings isn’t always the good thing.” — DAY6 JAE

“Everything doesn’t always happen with a reason. Sometimes, we act on impulse and that’s being human.” — DAY6 JAE

“It doesn’t matter who's looking, whether they're left or right beside you and they're dancing in a different format. Do you and no one else can say anything otherwise.” — DAY6 JAE

“Life is so short. Let’s make the best of our time on this earth.” — DAY6 JAE

“Those tweets are the things that I learned and I make a lot of mistakes but I feel like sharing you those things are important so that we could learn together and live life to become a better person together.” — DAY6 JAE

“I share those thoughts with u guys bc I feel like more so that my right to preach, u guys have a right to know. Technically, no one has the right to say anything to anybody bc everyone does smth wrong but more than me being wrong, what’s important is to learn together.“—DAY6 JAE

To everyone in this thread,

“You guys validated all the things I knew were important were really important. Everybody feels like they’re not heard sometimes, right? And that includes me, but you guys made sure that you let me know that I’m heard, so thank you so much.” —DAY6 JAE

“Let life kinda just take u on it’s current. You are a tennis ball floating thru the ocean, just let it take u on an adventure, don’t try to fight the current. When you fight the current, u’re just gonna exhaust yourself and in the end, the results aren’t gonna change.”—DAY6 JAE

“You could try harder to edge yourself in a certain direction. I feel like that’s valid, positive & good for ur life but when u try to go on complete opposite direction fr what ur natural forces are inclining u to, more times than not, it becomes a little bit difficult.”—DAY6 JAE

“You make who your soulmate is. Relationships aren’t always easy, there are struggles.. No two people are perfectly fit for each other.” — DAY6 JAE

“That whole process is like the adventure of love— finding out who each other is, being able to relate, bond on a deeper level, and finding the things that you may find as flaws but eventually becomes strengths in the relationship.” — DAY6 JAE

To those who were ghosted,

“It’s usually when they have too much to think about and they don’t want to think anymore. They just want to sit at home, & chill, [...] they just need a break. Give them a little bit of time and I promise you the conversation will restart.” — DAY6 JAE

“It’s amazing how something as complicated as emotion, can be understood through a language we don’t understand.” — DAY6 JAE

“Anywhere that wants to hear our music, we’re always open for it. Music is music. There’s no barrier.. it’s emotion. Everyone feels emotion.” — DAY6 JAE

“School and education is important but getting what you need out of your education is more important.” — DAY6 JAE

“In the end, whatever you do, whoever you are, you just gotta get it. You gotta go big. Go get her if you want it.” — DAY6 JAE

“Please give yourself a pat on the back because no matter what you’re doing, you are doing great and no matter who you are, you are loved.” — DAY6 JAE

“Do not avoid Love. You don’t know what’s gonna happen. Life changes in a blink of an eye. The person that you thought was an absolute nightmare might ask you on a date one day and you somehow end up, and you have the greatest date of your life.” — DAY6 JAE

“Realize that you are only gonna have a certain specified amount of emotional power to distribute amongst your loved ones. Make sure your distribution ratio doesn’t have to be 1:50 or 1:100 cause you’re not gonna be able to give enough to anybody.” — DAY6 JAE

“Being comfortable is great bc that means u’ve established the position where u have been given the luxury of being able to choose to be comfortable. But I feel like no matter what u’re doing in life, you should always be looking for more. Wanting more gets you more.” — DAY6 JAE

“Ask yourself how u are doing today. It’s important to re-evaluate how ur life is going in ur perspective ‘cause we get so busy living life, meeting deadlines, & getting things done that we forget to chill & ask ourselves is everything ok? Am I alright? Am I all here?” — DAY6 JAE

“It’s a human thing— feeling hopeless & feeling empty. It happens to everybody, but just because it happens to everybody doesn’t mean it’s not a point of concern. If u’re feeling the certain way, pls talk to someone about it. Talking helps so much bc that’s an outlet.” — DAY6 JAE

“We are all humans with flaws. Being human is about being imperfect. It’s the imperfections that make you who you are. If everything is perfect, we wouldn’t be individuals.” — DAY6 JAE

“Nothing in life is black and white, especially with arguments. It’s always gray. It’s just who is the darker gray.” — DAY6 JAE

“Influence develop who you are as a person. Try to get good friends and be around good people. Genuine friends and good connections equal to great life.” — DAY6 JAE

“It’s super attractive when people are confident. I think it’s super cool when some people don’t put their makeup on for a day or believes that other days are more important than how they look.” — DAY6 JAE

“Being able to convey the emotion of what you’re singing is the most important thing. If you can feel that they are honest, it just hits home.” — DAY6 JAE

“No one should ever have to feel a certain way for being themselves. Don't let nobody tell you otherwise. You're you and that's beautiful in itself.” — DAY6 JAE

“Live for the team, live for the people you care about and most importantly, live for ME like DO YOU.” — DAY6 JAE

“Everybody wants to be loved but nobody loves themselves.” — DAY6 JAE

“If we’re supposed to be role models why would we only show our best moments? What kind of example does that set? That something’s wrong w someone if they aren’t ok all the time? I don’t believe in that. I want to show u me, as a real person, so u know u aren’t alone.” — DAY6 JAE

Jae’s message regarding his thoughts, words, and sharing his personal struggles:

“I really want to tell you the things that I’ve learned through personal experience so that you guys don’t have to go through negative experiences in order to learn those same things.” — DAY6 JAE

“I’m definitely open to understanding more about the world because I’m not perfect, I don’t know everything, and I really would like to try my best to understand everybody.” — DAY6 JAE

“When you lose someone that you love and you think back about them, it’s not always gonna be cheers and sadness. It lasts. It passes and eventually becomes an experience that you can look back to.” — DAY6 JAE

“In actuality, the crying part isn’t really the sad part that hits you. It’s the part where they say goodbye and where everyone has accepted that it’s finally over.” — DAY6 JAE

“When you live your life thinking about other people’s feelings and what other people want before yours, you realize that they don’t care and the greater good is always gonna be the greater good.” — DAY6 JAE

“Just as just you gotta do what’s right and people don’t want to take responsibility for things that are wrong, sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet and just do it.” — DAY6 JAE

“Doing things for the betterment of other people, I realize that I could do more good for the world doing what I do best so I’ve stopped asking people and just started doing.” — DAY6 JAE

“I’m not too concern of other people’s feelings anymore. You would think that when you stop being concerned of what other people think about you. In actuality, people will end up liking you for being you and that becomes a new form of confidence.” — DAY6 JAE

“When you’re still in a stance where you’re doing things for other people and being careful, you stop being able to do and work on your full potential.” — DAY6 JAE

“I’m tired of people being scared of change and not wanting to take responsibility for things that could cause a positive or negative reaction.” — DAY6 JAE

“If you could do a positive change doing what you do best and with what you know best, then why not do it?” — DAY6 JAE

“Why do you have to concern yourself of what others think about you and your decisions? How are they gonna know what’s in your head? No ones gonna fully understand exactly what you’re thinking.” — DAY6 JAE

“Let’s say I spoke to the smartest person in the world and I try to explain to him exactly how I was feeling about a certain topic, he wouldn’t be able to understand that because emotions aren’t understandable.” — DAY6 JAE

“No one is gonna take care of you except you. If you want to use your platform to help people, you better do it.” — DAY6 JAE

“We’re supposed to be role models. What kind of examples are we if we only show our perfect moments, only looking good, only looking the right way, only being the perfect instrument? Showing them perfection makes them feel like they’re stranged if they aren’t perfect.” — DAY6 JAE

“If we only show you our best moments and kids grew up watching that, and one day they have a day that is not their best moment, they will lash out and fight with someone and they give in to their anger. Something will hit them the wrong way.” — DAY6 JAE

“Everybody has a sucky day. It’s freaking normal. It pisses me off that some people try to act like everyday is perfect for them because that undermines the 99.9999 rest of everyone else who doesn’t have that perfect days.” — DAY6 JAE

“I’m sick of everything and everyone else just trying to make you seem like everything has to be perfect when it’s not. Everyone, just be a human being for once.” — DAY6 JAE

“The imperfections are what make you who you are.” — DAY6 JAE

“Let your emotions remind you that you’re alive and those emotions aren’t always great emotions. We should be happy with the fact that we feel emotion because if you’re not feeling any of that, then you’re not alive. Feel alive.” — DAY6 JAE

“Life’s bad sometimes but just remember that at the end of the day, u’re able to feel these emotions, anger, & frustrations due to the fact that u’re still living on this earth. Then, that segways to another day for a better experience. There’s always a second chance.” — DAY6 JAE

“Before we look at others with hatred, let’s take a look in the mirror first and see if we have a right to evaluate other people.” — DAY6 JAE

“No one’s perfect. No one should try to be perfect.” — DAY6 JAE

“As much as you think that idols, singers, celebrities, older brothers, mothers, and fathers are the only role models, you forget to realize that everyone that makes you feel a certain emotion, whether good or bad, is a role model.” — DAY6 JAE

“Let’s try to be respectful. No one has not done something wrong.” — DAY6 JAE

“It has become a trend to be toxic and offensive. It frustrates me that we’re bringing up our generations and we’re letting them see this ugly side of society that shouldn’t be visible for them to learn from.” — DAY6 JAE

“Why are we setting a disgusting example for our future? If this continues, it’s gonna be worse because the preceding generations exponentially grow culture and assuming that the cancel culture gets worse, who’s gonna be left in the end?” — DAY6 JAE

“Why are we lying to people? Why are we trying to act like we’re perfect? Why are we discriminating against other people because of skin color? How does that even make sense? It doesn’t. There’s no logic to it.” — DAY6 JAE

“If we’re enabling these (toxic comments) and just sitting by, or worse, the ones commenting, and exposing the youth this kind of culture, we’re literally growing hate. Are we trying to end this world with hate & suffering caused by our own anger towards one another?” — DAY6 JAE

“Don’t feed our younger generation (with hate & toxicity). Our literal future hate before they even learn what love is, before they learn what friendship is, before they learn what other more important ideals are, and before they solidify their character.” — DAY6 JAE

“Don’t let their youth (younger generation) be brought up on a culture that popularize hate.” — DAY6 JAE

“The toxicity in today’s culture especially social media being so booming, and everybody having a platform to speak, like cool have your opinions, but just don’t let negative things affect our youth and our future. Let them have a chance at success.” — DAY6 JAE

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, just don’t say it.” — DAY6 JAE

“You are the perfect version of yourself when you’re happy with yourself.” — DAY6 JAE

“People learn from mistakes but they dont have to be your mistakes.” — DAY6 JAE

“A conversation could change a person’s life. You, metaphorically reaching out a hand to somebody, could be the difference between them making a stupid decision, an impulsive decision, that doesn’t give them a second chance.” — DAY6 JAE

“Do you realize how much hope that gives a person to just know that someone’s there for them? The fact that someone is there, at the end of the tunnel, waiting to help them.” — DAY6 JAE

“What if you could shine a flashlight at the end for someone else? And then they could shine their flashlight back at you? And you can remind each other that you’re human beings and that you’re there for each other?” — DAY6 JAE