Introducing The Maknae Line

Introducing The Maknae Line 😎

(BTS)

Track 10. Adrift -- RM mixtape, 2015

I don’t know what we live for The say we live for happiness, but I don’t understand what it even means

There are so many things in the world that I can neither know nor see Those words that adults say, ‘you’ll get to know with time’, can’t seem to ease my mind

(translation by doolset)

sometimes i'm okay and sometimes i remember that yoongi and joon refer to each other as 'my respect' 😞💕

PLS SAME .. 😢😭♥️ the ‘my respect’ duo .... the ‘we’ve been living together the longest’ duo ....... the ‘I can make him smile in 2 seconds’ duo ...... the sexiest & most brilliant rapper duo who always create stunning songs together and are always there to support and hype each other up duo!!! NAMGI 💕💫✨💞💖⭐️💗🍯🌟💓

happy birthday to the leader of our lives, the man who believed in bangtan before any of us did, kim namjoon! ❍ 940912 ↳ #aRMysEternaLove #NamjooningDay cr.: namuspromised (memories 2020 & sy japan) & jeonxm (in the soop 1)

“In the end, it’s really important for me to ask about who I am, and I want to express who I found myself out to be, but I’m having a really difficult time because I don’t know if what I found is right. So for now, ‘Bicycle’ is also the result of collecting the selves I found who I think represent the best of me. Even while making a song like ‘Bicycle,’ I have to convey – how do I put this? It’s just about me, this kid from outside the big city – an essence that I can’t get rid of, I guess. I can’t let go of the kid who used to perform in Hongdae. It’s not really something I want to express or hold onto; it’s my essence, so I don’t really have a choice. (laughs)” — RM, 2021

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The mindlessly learned helplessness like the water that falls through the cracks between rocks. Though it somewhat feels like I should get up and storm out of the room to try and resist all the the things that represent frustration, those pointed fingers that say to just stay -- stay where I am. Tried reading books and read some more, tried those unfamiliar things starting with 'untact.' Even tried working out at home. Tried delivery food too. Wasn't it a year in which we tried everything we could do in our small rooms? Though we are still going on like this.

.... Will spring really come this time, will a real spring-like spring come? Although I'm not going to expect anything because I don't want to be disappointed, I think -- after all, those who hold on tight, even to fragments of, to the last ray of hope to be able to wake from sleep again -- isn't that what people are? I engrave in my heart once again the fact that I'm receiving the loving and affectionate eyes of lots of people amidst all this, even in this cold winter, and I determinedly say to myself: I won't break easily. Even if there is no one around, I'm listening.

Even though I said to myself, let's write something a bit short and simple while sending off this year, seeing the overflowing train of words, I think there's still a long way to go until I become a large, beautiful tree. Even if I prune every day, the clear and faint words and imaginations climb up the back of my head and grow. The thought that I get of not being able to live on without reaching my hand out and waving it around, even in an empty void, is probably just how I originally am. Adults around me said that, "you're the type of person who has to calm down, let your anger out a bit." Not even anger, but anger.

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The sunset is hanging from the ends of the eaves. To the many specks of dust like me who try hard to float in order to remain in any form within this blue dot [the Earth], and also to those familiar cold smiles and rules on the outside that threaten and try to swallow us whole, I write a letter. That this one year wasn't in vain. In the end, I can't think of anything but the word 'love', but I write again liek this, searching aimlessly for somewhat better words that have not been worn out. Within these days of exhaustion, thank you for willingly being with us on this tiring journey. ... Do remember, they can't cancel the spring.

-Kim Namjoon (January 1, 2021)

[I swear I tried to only type out the important bits.... but it was all so gosh darn beautiful it was hard to make any cuts.]