It just so happens that it's our first time living today
The first line of this song hits differently. It is so much impactful that just by listening to it I can immediately cry. As we continue living our lives, we always blame ourselves for not being enough. While writing this, I remembered what I just told my friends yesterday, "No matter what I do, I will never be enough. I will always be wrong." But this song reminds me that it's just my first time living in this earth and it's okay.
'Cheers to Youth' is a song released by SEVENTEEN Vocal Unit for their Best Album '17 is Right Here'. I was blessed enough to get to hear this live during their Follow Again to Seoul concert. Because it was my first time hearing it, I didn't get much of the lyrics and I just enjoyed listening to it. Little did I know that the lyrics of this song is the exact thing I wanted to say.
Music Video
Last May 24, SEVENTEEN released the music video for 'Cheers to Youth'. The music video showcases different people with different struggles in life. From being stressed from work to having anxiety of the future, it shows that everyone in the world has their own struggles which led them in joining the T(iny)issue Club. Through that club, they were able to feel a little bit better.
Jeonghan
Based from what I see in the music video, Jeonghan is having a fear of the future. The world tells him that 'forever is a lie' therefore it makes him hard to see the future. No matter what glasses he wears it will still be blurry.
In the end, he removed the glasses and was able to see clearly. Maybe not his future, but his present which he currently is missing because of his fear of the future.
Joshua
For Joshua, he was represented here as a meerkat. If you search for the meaning of a meerkat, it can mean that it's about teamwork. But it can also mean that a danger is coming. From what I see, Joshua is struggling to fit in his workplace. Therefore, he is always on the lookout if somebody will say bad things to him at work.
But at the end, he overcame it and realized that his workmates are there to support him and help him. All work can be easily done when people work together.
Woozi
Woozi is having social anxiety in this music video. He doesn't want to go out to meet real people. Instead, he uses his gadgets to do his errands. Actually, it can also be considered as gadget addiction. But from my perspective, it's more of a fear of being seen my people.
Through the help of the Tissue Club, he was able to overcome this fear and eventually met other people.
DK
DK represents the students who are pressured to do well in school. You can see that he has a lot of books on his desk, studying day and night. With all the stress he feels, he just wanted to be a rock. This is a common feeling of students and it's really hard to get over this feeling.
But thanks to his friends, he was able to overcome it and also tried to go out and experience life rather than just being stuck studying all day.
Seungkwan
For me, I see Seungkwan here as a person who can see a different world than other people. Because of this, people find him weird and therefor being left out. He sees the world in a different perspective which other people cannot.
But through the help of the Tissue Club, he found friends who listen to him and understand him and even join his little adventures in life.
Lyrics
It just so happens that it's our first time living
This is the first line of the song. This first line can definitely give the whole meaning of the song. Everyone can have a mistake in their lives. Everyone can feel afraid. Everyone is allowed to not understanding everything. Why? Because it's our first time living in this world. Everything is new to us. That's why it's okay to not be able to be perfect.
I want to be myself but I don't want to be alone
Even I cannot understand myself
This is a common line I always tell to myself. It's fun to be alone, physically. But I don't want to feel alone. Even if I am doing a lot of things alone, I don't want to feel alone. As an introvert, I always love being alone. I can do the things I want to do. But at the same time, I still want to feel like people care about me. I want them to be with me, may it not be physically but emotionally.
Where could my happiness possibly be? No one can answer that for me.
No one can really answer where our happiness is. Even ourselves will have a hard time answering the question. Mainly because it's hard to define what happiness is. Everyone have different answers to what happiness is.
But this line hits more. As a person who don't know where happiness is, I cannot simply ask other people just like how I ask for directions. It's hard to find happiness when we don't know what happiness really is.
On the way home today, I will tell myself that I did okay
This is the part where I always cry the hardest. Because I never tell myself that I did okay. I wanted special people to tell me that I did well. I wanted to tell myself that I did well. But it's just hard to do that because I have high expectations with myself. My family has high expectation with myself as well. Everybody has high expectations of me and I feel like everything I did is not enough. Therefore it's hard to tell myself that I did well.
Maybe that's the reason why I badly cry when this part comes. It's because these are the words I wanted to hear that I never hear from anyone even myself.
That in this suffocating world, I still found little things that made me smile
Life is hard. And those little things that made us smile, we should treasure it. For me, a simple encouraging post from Wonwoo make me smile. That's why I treasure it so much. If it's hard to find happiness, maybe we can find little things that can make us smile at least. May it be a person, food, show, or whatever form it may be.
Full English Lyrics
It just so happens that it's our first time living today
and though their hurtful words make us hate ourselves more
Let's try not to care
We can sing anywhere with our voices
Cheers to youth
1 2 1 2 3 4!
I get scared when my phone rings
These days, my heart is easily startled
I want to be by myself but I don't want to be alone
Even I can't understand myself
Where could my happiness possibly be?
No one can answer that for me
I talk to my reflection on my turned-off phone screen
On the way home today, I'll tell myself that I did okay
That it wasn't easy but it wasn't too bad either
That in this suffocating world
I still found little things that made me smile
It just so happens that it's our first time living today
and though their hurtful words make us hate ourselves more
Let's try not to care
We can sing anywhere with our voices
Cheers to youth
My, My, My, My, My, My
My cozy blanket wrapping me around with its humble warmth
Gives me hope for tomorrow before I go to bed
The loud alarm that will go off tomorrow morning
I hope I will hate it less than I did yesterday
Even in this suffocating world
Everything will be fine because I will love myself as I am
It just so happens that it's our first time living tomorrow
and though their hurtful words make us hate ourselves more
Let's try not to care
We can sing anywhere with our voices
Cheers to youth
Cheers to Youth
I thank Woozi for writing this song. Whenever I need a good cry, I will always listen to this song. This song is a reminder that we should be kinder to ourselves because it's our first time living. We shouldn't be so hard on ourselves and we should find small good things around us.
Living is hard that's why let's try to make it a little bit easier by not blaming ourselves all the time. It's okay. It's okay.
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