when you spend your entire youth on a single thing like bangtan have done it's so difficult to imagine and define yourself outside of it, to see your value past the thing you've poured everything into. i hope they know they're all full, complete people who will matter forever

i know the lyrics of tear explicitly say stop saying things like forever, but i think they will survive forever, as far as we as humanity can perceive the word. there's a quote similar to the one before black swan that reminds me of them, when they worry about things like this

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal. – Ernest Hemingway.

bangtan will be immortal, i think. it feels right to say that.