Sorry if this is a bit choppy and slow, I have an undesirable talent for putting way too much detail into things and I didn't want the paragraphs to be too long so you could read them easier.
The people who are reading this are probably people that i've talked to on here and have clicked on my profile. And you probably know that I'm a big fan of kpop and kdramas (don't have to be applied to this idea though, it's just my example). And this whole thought started with a single song.
Bit of context behind this, the kdrama 'Moorim School' is the first kdrama I ever watched. And if there was a way to physically thank a kdrama, I would. It pretty much changed my life for the better, it has allowed me to make many new friends online by bonding over mutual interests, made me more confident about myself, inspired me to learn a new instrument and so on by introducing me to korean music, TV, and pretty much opened up my love for the whole of asian culture and food. But there's just one song from the drama that hits me deep down every time I hear it, especially the piano parts.
This song is called 'Run' by an artist named Ha Seong (if you want to listen to it, it's on youtube. Unfortunately the drama's songs weren't promoted like other OSTs and so aren't on any music services that I know of). I love listening to the song and staring at my ceiling to just take a moment to think, and there's probably going to be many chapters in this book that is created from doing this. But this idea I formed is from may before then. When i first went onto the song on youtube, and as the song was playing I scrolled through the comments just liking them. Then I looked at the date for all of them. "5 years ago". "4 years ago" is what most of them said. And I left a comment under it that I'll just copy pate here and maybe just extract a few parts since i've already said them.
The comment said:
Moorim School was the first kdrama i ever watched back sometime around 2017 or 2018, and ive since fallen in love with kdramas and also have been introduced to kpop. Its now August 26th 2021 (it was at the time of writing it, its now Wednesday 2nd February 2022) and im still here, ive watched the drama 9 times and am on my 10th time (now 13th lol) and if there was any way to physically thank a kdrama I would. But also I cant be the only one who sees all of these comments from 5 years ago whilst listening to this song and just starts thinking. Those people were there when the drama first came out, and for all i know could currently be in a prestigious university, they could be on a high school exchange abroad, they could be living in South Korea or just be an ordinary person in high school or working at a huge office. But 5 years ago they could have been living the dream that they wanted to in their youths, or they couldve been exactly the same as they are now. It just reminds me how time can fly by and every single person behind a comment has a different life that was even more different 5 years ago. And i know none of those commenters will ever see this (or anyone else, if you have then thanks) and some may have even forgotten that Moorim school exists and that they even left a comment under this video but it's kinda sad to me in a way. Well if anyone is reading this, have a nice life ahead of you and i hope you never forget about moorim school. Hopefully ill see you again :)
That pretty much sums up my thoughts. And then another thing occurred to me. When I set the comments to most recent, I saw my comment from 5 months ago with only 2 comments above it. Compared to the amount of comments it used to get, it's pretty much nothing. Which means people are forgetting about the drama and song altogether. That by itself is sad to me, how a song or drama that means so much to me can have such little value to another person that they can forget about the whole thing just like that. And the same thing goes with my own personal memories. I'll remember something that was super important to me, tell someone about it and they wont remember.
But this whole thing is just a wake up call to how different everyone's lives are to mine, and how as everyone progresses through their lives into the future, their past is slowly but surely forgotten. It was nice having this chat and if anyone made it this far, please just comment something to give me something to do. Thank you, and have a lovely future living up to your dreams.
