bts enlistment...
This post grew from feeling compelled to comment, and offer support to one of my peeps, here. I was typing away under the post, and it turned into a thing, as I let the words flow.
So... like @irishhorse-blog , this is my opinion, and mine to bear. It’s not up for any debate. This is not coming from any place of judgement at all.
When people are forced to enlist in a military, it is life-altering in ways that cannot be predicted, on every level. Everything changes. Freedom is taken away, and a person is forced to comply with a way of living, behaving, thinking, and Being that is completely different from life outside of that military. Pick any country in the world, and it is the same in their military.
When a person is forced to enlist, their basic Human Right to make choices for themself is taken away. A way of life is imposed, that requires that person to alter their most innate Self and to become what they are taught they must become. (I’ll stop here, with this particular part of this post, as it is a VERY deep subject that isn’t pleasant.)
My bestie is a Veteran of two recent wars. She would agree with my words above, as well as with the post that I’ve referenced from @irishhorse-blog. She went in by choice, and that is a whole different type of experience. She was a bad-ass paratrooper, and jumped out of more airplanes than one can imagine. She’s seen first hand what war is, and what it does to Human Beings. It left her with a host of physical challenges, ptsd, and other things that we can never understand as civilians, yet she doesn’t regret the choice.
I have friends in Israel, where both men and women have to serve in their military for two years. It is just a part of their lives in their country, just as it is in Korea. Yet, it is very different when the people don’t have a choice to serve.
Two years is a long time. Even at the shortest duration of 18 months, it is a long time to put one’s “regular” life on hold.... To be separated from family, friends, lovers... And, it being forced, and not by choice.
There’s an energy that comes with enlistment that is one of enforcing compliance upon a human being. It’s like a huge thumb pressing down upon a person’s Crown chakra (if you get the visual). That’s what I am seeing in Hobi and Jin’s energy fields now. You can see it on their faces. It is subtle, yet there all the same.
The other thing that just literally dropped into my mind as I type is this very profound thought: These young men are going to enlist in the military where they will be taught to strictly follow orders, AND where they will be taught how to use firearms, and how to kill another human being. Yeah. Let that sink in...
Humans aren’t born with the ability or desire to kill one another. It is learned behaviour for most, and in more rare situations it is learned (taken on) for pure survival. It goes against the very Nature of a Human Being to have to take the life of another, on purpose. That in itself creates deep trauma, within the person who pulls the trigger...
Humans have been at war for thousands of years. At this point on Earth’s Timeline, it has become a business, with a whole industry built around it. There are people who have made more money than all of us put together, in one war. It is the real reason why countries never really quite stop, and never quite establish peace. It’s big business, unfortunately.
There are so many levels and aspects to this subject. I dare not attempt to go much further with this as I’m not a wordsmith, and it would become a very very long post. I’ll begin to bring this to a close.
Again, as I’ve been writing this and thinking about these things, it has become much clearer that Seokjin, Hoseok, Yoongi, Namjoon, Taehyung, Jimin and Jungkook will be changed at the core level, during their enlistment. The version of them that we are familiar with and love will cease to be. The men who return on the other side may seem to be the same, outwardly..... yet the truth is that they will be navigating from a new place, within their psyches, and in their understanding of the world. I pray that their Souls remain intact.
The most we can hope for is that they choose to rejoin and begin to make music together again. They will probably need the healing that music can bring to them, as they re-adjust to life after the military.
As ARMY, the best things that we can do for them is to hold Space for them, and to send them Love throughout their enlistment. It will be hard to wait for them, yet it is the Promise that we have made. We will be there for them, on the other side. With open Hearts and open arms. 💜
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day 121/548 of hobi's military service
this selca was posted on 140321 with the caption:
Real Man (Boy in Luv)
It's Hobie
Today's really the last stage. From producing the song, to settling on our title track and deciding on the name of the song, up till each moment we had one worry.
Going on stage to perform with this music and title, will people like it?- I think we worried about this more than 10 times over. To stand up confidently against this very worry, we really worked hard practicing. It seemed as though my pride had to first gain its confidence. While making merry of this worry, we sweat blood-shed perspiration preparing for 'Real Man's first broadcast, but the very moment of stepping onto that first stage, I felt proud! Hahahahahahaha
Every moment of the 6 weeks that past had been enjoyable! It's a neither long nor short time but its been a really fun and happy promotion! I reckon it's thanks to our ARMYs' enthusiastic cheering that made it even more exciting. Ehhehehehe~~~~~
For always cheering on so enthusiastically for us, thank you very much!!! It's a pity that it's the last stage and the lingering attachment but!!!! ARMYs don't be sad that it's ended! Our style~ you know Bangtan style. We'll explosively produce music and come back to everyone with yet an even better stage again soon. Thank you very much!!! We'll work harder @-@///
ARMYing I love you ♥?♥?♥?♥?
A photo different from usual times, just softly~
(trans cr: Denise @ bts-trans)
You all, It's J-HOPE who appeared suddenly!!!!!! the 6 weeks have passedㅜㅜㅜ how could this happen? I'm sad, really sad, instead of tears coming from my eyes, they're coming out from my ears... thanks a lot for cheering on us always, I really love you forever ARMYs.
(trans cr: Iraide @ bts-trans)
Boy in Luv performance from that day:
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