It's My World: Jaejong Oppa's Quotes

"No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either."

"I thought I was the strongest but like this, my humbled self is embarrassed for my appearance that has been endlessly caving in and is sorry to the many people who have been cheering me on..I had a lot of thoughts during that time I was reflecting on myself. Though they say I’m hurting because I’m still in my youth..it seems like it’s good if I hurt a little more.."

"Growing older makes me anxious. It scares me that time passes by quickly. And the days we couldn’t meet are increasing. I don’t like it that I’m getting farther and farther from my youth. I hate myself who thinks about these things..the feeling that I hate the most is that uneasy feeling of maybe not knowing that feeling of distance. I don’t know what I’m saying but..today..I feel a lot of complex emotions. I don’t want to say that I’m living life just by breathing alone. I have to work hard. I must try hard."

"In reality, it’s romantic when you’re just dating. I like those without double-eyelids. A lot of people do surgery nowadays, but I like women who don’t have the double eyelids.“

It seems that as time passes by, my ideal woman changes. Before it was, ‘I like those with pretty hands and feet’, but it changed a lot now. I would like it if her personality was random. I like woman who push and pull [play hard]."

"The many moments where things keep piling on you. At that moment, you feel like you’re going to break, those times you become short of breath to the point of wanting to die.. If you look back, when those moments that were so short-lived come back to you again.. What should the me of the present moment do?"

"When a spot hurts, when you pinch another place actually the hurt in that place feels less. For instance, on a day after drinking heavily because of low spirits, I eat (to wake up) severely. I eat too much to the degree that my stomach hurts! I regret that moment thinking that I ate it for nothing and then I pay attention to the belly sticking out a bit. So then I work out. The method is that you have more of the meaningless thoughts and so you forget the actually important thing?"

"When you already know so much about yourself and when you have already spent so much time with people around you, the lies that you both can tell each other disappear."

"I listen to music wherever I am. I believe that music is connected to everything that I am. When I work on songs often I first meditate for an hour or two while listening to music. As I do so, sometimes I am able to write the lyrics first or sometimes an idea about the song comes up in my head in that moment."

"Think of hope the minute you feel miserable with your life. Take up the habit of finding joy in the smallest of things in life. The misery you feel now will be a strong foundation for your future and you will become someone with an invaluable life. Also, hold the hand of the person next to you. Don’t think that you’re the only one living in this world. Don’t grow your sorrow on your own and ask for help from the person next to you."

"I’m waiting for the black and red version.. somehow it feels like I’m collecting dragon balls…"

"You may love, remember, reminisce or or even hate but you can not take advantage of it."

"I used to think that the sky and earth were near each other. So I used to think that, no matter where I was, the people within my heart were never that far from me because we were living under the same sky and walking on the same earth. I wasn’t even lonely. For the first time, for some odd reason, I find myself feeling lonesome, as if I am watching my shadow getting uncontrollably farther away from me with the setting sun. World, tell me that it isn’t true. But because there is the light of the singing sun, I tell myself over and over again, “I’m okay. I’m okay.” Though I can’t see it, I can hear it. And I can feel it. We understand and love each other."

"Actually, it’s hard to explain what those two people are in my life because they mean so much to me. Nothing can compare to them. They’re kind of like my arms in a way. You can’t live without both arms, right? Like that, I’m able to live because I have both of them by my side."

"There are still a few rough patches to fix. But I can assure you that the problem wasn’t amongst the members. I believe there were lies and misunderstandings that surrounded us. Personally, I think that we could still straighten out all the misunderstandings."

"There are so many waves crashing down on us. Though the road we must travel down is so far and long, we must not stop.. The moment we do, we will be giving up on the road to becoming adults and we’ll fall into a bottomless abyss. Though we are just beginning to experience what it’s like to become adults, I want us to step into a bigger world that we can’t see yet with the best weapon we could hope to have, the fact that we are still young. Let’s all be strong^^ I’m always thankful!"