EXO Garbage

I also wanted to talk about the recent passing of this amazing human being who will always live on in our hearts and through music.

I had actually never listened to SHINee or Jonghyun until the day after it happened, the 19th, which is a day I’ll never forget. I had heard that a K-Pop star had died and it made me sad but I didn’t know who it was so I didn’t cry at the time. The next day I saw it again on the news so I looked up his name on YouTube and I listened to Lonely and Let Me Out and other songs he made and ones he did with SHINee. And I cried. Hard. I didn’t even know who he was until that day but I cried. I’ve still been crying at night every once in a while since the 18th while listening to his music; I kept thinking ‘if the music is here then he must be too’, but I was wrong.

It only hit me last night that he will never make music again. He will never perform at a concert again. He will never be told how much we care for him again. How much the other members care for him. How his sister and family and friends and everyone in his life care for him. He will never be able to be happy again. So we must do it for him. I’m not saying we need to be happy right at this moment. Grief for long periods of time is normal when this happens. But I’m talking about later.

We should try our best to live our lives the way that’s best for us, for him. Since he can no longer laugh we’ll laugh for him. Since he can’t ever sing again let’s sing for him.