FERAL WRITING ABOUT KIM NAMJOON AS PRESIDENT Of THE WORLDS MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE.

FERAL WRITING ABOUT KIM NAMJOON AS PRESIDENT Of THE WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE.

What stood out the most in the recent interview was Kim Namjoon’s answer to Sakshma’s question about how they feel about constantly reinventing their music with each comeback -

So when Namjoon spoke about how it’s never been easy to make albums of multiple songs (8-10? Some even more?!), twice every year, sometimes thrice a year, while reinventing their style and trying to say things in a deeper way + the visuals + other content (games, variety shows, interviews, behind the scenes). He says there’s hardly any artists doing putting out THAT much music. AAAND he attributes this to be a major reason for their success.

So okay pause. Yes BTS do do that & we love them for it. But there’s something special about #Namjoon here - because basically he’s been the leader of this band for 8 years now. Maybe I’m wrong but he’s KIND OF been the creative director of this music making machine that has KEPT ITS SOUL ALIVE.

That is NOT EASY. I’m hard pressed to find something harder to do. Just in terms of the success, I think equating BTS to Apple and Namjoon to Jobs would be a fair show of the scale at which they are.

Except that I think BTS are more egalitarian & better for the physical & mental environment of the world. They have an integrity that is essential to live a soulful life and I know they’re loved for it but it needs to be appreciated more!

Now the more interesting part, the part that makes me go a little bit mad - the sheer creative prowess this frickin 26 year old has MUST BE INNNNSANE. It’s not just the lyricism, the wordplay (which, for me, is brilliant in its fearlessness) it’s also that he’s been solving problems - creative, administrative - for eight years. Which basically means that apart from the talents we know and love in him, he’s also BASICALLY A MASTER IN DESIGN THINKING!

This, along with honing his craft, getting more aware about both worlds - his internal universe and the external world. I’m in awe.

Ofcourse BTS have all done that. Ofcourse the members (& crew & the producers) are all responsible for it but you know what I’m talking about right? Even the members talk about Namjoon’s genius and the level of responsibility on his (gorgeous) shoulders. As an artist, a songwriter, a composer, a rapper, a leader - Namjoon is a CREATIVE LEGEND.

Need proof? The man talks about the three Bs of creativity here - like it’s no joke - bath, bed & bus- three places where ideas flow.

He speaks about a literal net of thoughts that he spreads across the world and then knowing that an idea is caught. This is the most creative description of the creative process I have ever heard. In one line, Kim Namjoon broke my mind and the matrix.

So yeah, he needs to be asked more questions about creativity. Such as -

1. Explain more about the net of thoughts and catching ideas.

2. What does he think of the word Genius?

3. What does he do when fear, comparisons crop up within him / within the members?

4. Thoughts on the quote - ‘the best writing comes through you, not from you’.

5. What does he do on “off days”, on days when the ideas just don’t come?

6. How does he stay curious?

7. Rest & play (purposeless fun) - how important are they to his inner well-spring of creativity? How does he get rest & play?

8. How does knowing different languages affect his perspective?

It must not be easy at all. There must be days that might be really hard. Thank you, Kim Namjoon. Hope you’re doing okay. We are grateful affff and extremely proud of you. 💜

La Nostra Settimana! (Our Own Week!)

I've been thinking about how soul chipping the normal work week, hustle culture is. In today's life, we only have two days to enjoy life? That's really sad, I think. We all deserve more time to live well. Of course I'm very privileged that I can take breaks and think about these things and if I use that time to imagine a better system, it won't be wasted (I hope). The system needs to be changed for everybody & I feel we do need a new system - so basically I made a new week system for my self. One that allows for more wholeness... its based on the names of the days & the message of the corresponding planets.

Making the day ours is important because only then can we seize it. Making each moment our moment, full of our own joys and worries, that's what makes a life rich, I'm coming to realise. Of course every day I slip up & start wanting instead of being and still it's feeling rewarding & beautiful to me. Take this for instance, returning to tumblr has been such a beautiful experience. The people I get to talk the friends I'm making... they're just so gorgeous in their being. And it wouldn't have been if I wasn't more open to the magic of the day, of the moment. It wouldn't have been if I wasn't more open to my self. This feeling is like a changing puzzle that's already complete and you still have to continue putting it together... I don't know if that makes sense. And yet, I wish everyone to have this feeling.

I've also been learning Italian & I love the word settimana - in latin it roughly means 'in number of seven'. And also, I love that mana is part of the word... because Mana means 'the power of the elemental forces of nature embodied in an object or person' - its a part of the english dictionary & the origin is Hawaiian / Polynesian. This kind of a coincidence is magical to me. Plus how is it that the meaning of the names of the days is the same in Italian & Hindi, Marathi? How did these meanings coincide in latin & sanskrit?! Because this is exactly what the system should be - Our own sort of dedication to the special elemental power of the day we're in. Each person could be encouraged to think of the system as a question, as it relates to themselves. It doesn't escape me that perhaps this actually has been the system all along, it just has been waiting to be realised as a thought in my brain because I've opened up more to the magic of the world. Either way, this is what I've understood so far. Think of it more as a possible conversation between you & the day you're in. So without further ado (Please excuse my over-explanations): Sunday - the sun’s day so we do whatever makes us all feel like we’re shining. It’s the day of performances and watching things and meeting people and loving in general!

Monday - moon’s day. A day of quiet contemplation. We talk about our feelings. We help all students understand how to process emotion. We talk about how to be kind to ourselves.

Tuesday - Mars’ day - a day of action! Start that project! Play a sport! Do the thing basically do what you’d do if your life was a Nike commercial!

Wednesday- Mercury! All about communication, messages! Learn new technology, new languages! Talk to friends, that long distance phone call!

Thursday- Jupiter! Make plans! Think about goals! Think about what you want in life, dream the big dreams and take small steps to make them happen!

Friday - Venus! SOCIALISE! Meet with friends, connect with people! Listen to new ideas and try out different hats!

Saturday- Saturn! Day 2 of quiet contemplation- be alone-ish. Think about what are the problems and how they can become stepping stones. Think about / teach boundaries. Learn more about yourself!

This came about from a conversation with a new friend, @sahmfanficbts who listens to my nerding out so patiently. Thank you!

Conversations are such magical things, imagine you're in a conversation with the stars and the planets. Imagine you're in conversation with life. What will you say?

If anyone ever wants to unfold desire within themselves, read @sunshyngal. This woman knows how to write. She writes desire and feeling with trust and care. It’s a heady concoction and a warm comforter. To all those who wanted to pressure her to write one thing over another, would you ask the rain to fall ‘a particular way’? That’s how she writes, for me. Like the rain. Thank you, Shyn.

One last teaser because i loved this part :’(  its not a spoiler but in case you guys don’t want to read it now you can ignore it but if you do read please tell me you liked it  :( :( 

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MASTERPIECE

So this is the “Hobi being a photographer for Jimin being a photographer for Yoongi being a pillow for Jungkook being a comfy seat for Taehyung.”

What BTS gave me? You.

Being an admirer of Kim Namjoon has brought me close to so many beautiful people. That’s the true magic of BTS, for me. Their friendship, their music - which is an inextricable part of their music - has created a ripple effect of friendships everywhere. I’m so lucky to have found it when I did. I’m so lucky to have been able to be a part of this beautiful domino chain.

These women, they are all so smart, on their paths to loving themselves every day (because as we all know love yourself is a train, not a station). These women - women I’m so so proud to call my friends. One of them is a straight up warrior raising and teaching her kids and is literally full of life! She lends me a comforting shoulder from far away and I can feel her love and her kindness and her fiery will to love and live fully all the way here, in my heart!

Another is the softest most beautiful shy and tender creature I’ve ever come across... she lives through the everyday without revealing her pain. She takes her feelings and weaves them into wool warmers for the heart. She speaks softly (I imagine) and writes deeply. I cannot begin to explain how she helps caress my heart. I hope she knows her words are basically warm tea for my soul.

Then we have another gorgeous person - she’s a gamer (idc if there’s a strict definition of gamer to me a gamer is one who loves and plays games), she’s a fighter and yet there’s such a beautiful softness, kindness in her strength. She’s been suffering, even if she’s been physically hurting, her spine is straight and her heart is soft. She is healing her own pain and in that process is helping me heal my own.

Yet another talks to me about finding her way to self kindness and she boosts me up with her words. My fangirl sister, I see her be kind, be vigil towards being kind in a way I’ve never seen before. She reminds me to be stepping consciously, conscientiously so as not to repeat the misgivings of our ancestors or of our past selves.

AND all these women write. All their words have brought me such joy and such warmth. Yet, the magical part is all the words I’ve written describing each describes the other too. Some might not be mothers but they are just as fiery, just as nurturing. I’m not taking names because I don’t want to put any of them on the spot (which is sometimes what happens with mentions) but I do want to thank them all. Thank you, you beautiful beautiful people. For helping me make a home here, when I’m yet to find my true home.

Yes BTS has given us all so much comfort and loving through their songs and their words and in general their chaotic antics. Plus, the gorgeous mind and heart that Kim Namjoon is has taught me so so much about myself and about us all. All of these elements together is causing an alchemy within me. BTS have given me is a way to reach people... to make friendships in a way that wasn’t possible for me before. How do I express gratitude for something as vast as this? I don’t know how these two words can contain it all... still, all I can say is Thank You.

@sunshyngal babyyyy are you straight up trying to killll meeee?! I’m SO SOFFFFF FOR WHAT YOU’VE POSTED TODAY. Legit here still processing your Yoongi Drabble (which is not a Drabble because an epiphany is not a plain ass thought)

Amendment to English: Soffff

Having the harsh T sound at the end of the word that’s supposed to mean SOFT does not make sense.

Hence, I present, the new and improved - SOFFFFF.

Image for representation only. As in to say sofff like Park Jimin coyly smiling in a bunny hat.

With its fluffy fuh sound an endless flow of breeze between the inside of your lips and your teeth, a fitting pronunciation to the word that’s supposed to describe sheep’s wool pillows that your head is laid against as you drift off into dreamland.

It costs nothing. Just fuck convention and say, ‘Sofffff’.

Bonus - the number of ‘ffff’s can be adjusted according to the intensity of sofffness and/or however the fuck you want. Yas flexible spelling.