Dazzling SHINee

Friendship, noun

“I pray that you won’t be hurt”

“We’d choose to be SHINee again if we were reborn, as long as it were with these same members.”

#9yearsWithSHINee 🎉

we knew he was depressed and mentally ill but we didn’t know he felt this isolated, this empty, and this tortured

we knew about it but we didn’t know the extent of it

Thank you Kim Jonghyun! May your soul rest in peace.

“Why? That’s what I keep asking. Was there anything I could have said or done? I had no clue you were masking a troubled soul. God only knows what went wrong and why you’d leave the stage in the middle of a song. Why? There’s no comprehending but who am I to try to judge or explain? Oh, but I do have one burning question. Who told you life wasn’t worth the fight? They were wrong. They lied. Now you’re gone and we cry. ‘Cause it’s not like you to walk away in the middle of a song – your absolutely beautiful song.”

You were the brightest star in the whole sky, Kim Jonghyun, and the world is going to be a darker place without you in it. Wherever you are, I hope it’s paradise. Please look after us, protect us, love us forever, and we promise to do the same for Jinki, Kibum, Minho and Taemin. Thank you for your heart, your spirit, your voice, your smile, and please know that the impact you left on this world, and all the joy you spread in your 27 years, will last forever.

Kim Jonghyun April 8, 1990 - December 18, 2017

to my dearest jonghyun,

you were in pain. you were hurting. you were in pain and hurting and upset and lonely and sad and many other things as you passed on. you were also an amazing singer, talented songwriter, an outstanding human being, an integral president in the shinee world, and a father to the sweetest little ‘roo’. although you are no longer on this earth, your legacy, your love for people who needed help, your love for music, your overall essence, will remain long after. you, kim jonghyun, gave shawols, sm, your family and everyone in this world a piece of your heart through your talented body and we can never repay you for your selfless services, even if it did cost you your own happiness in return. the sweet voice that enchanted many will forever play on, and the songs you wrote are eternal. we say goodbye to your physical presence, kim jonghyun, but never to your soul, your heart, your very being. you were in pain. you were hurting, and now you’re free. so i say goodbye to you, kim jonghyun; insole wearing, puppy-pokemon hybrid look-a-like, crybaby, always-so-extra, kim jonghyun. may we meet again.

your sweetest,

an eternal shawol.