Aral [Hiatus]

35.5 Andromeda

He is Andromeda, literally and metaphorically.

Nobody knows where, why, and how it all began. But, being called Andromeda has always suited him, anyway. Why? Because he is a galaxy himself.

Andromeda is among the brightest of the Messier objects, making this galaxy visible to the naked eye on moonless nights, even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.

He is Andromeda, in the sense of being the brightest presence. You can always see him, standing there, wherever he is. Whether in an empty room or in a busy crowd, nothing hides the way he glows. Ever so softly or ever so blindingly, as he pleases.

As a spiral galaxy, Andromeda contains approximately one trillion stars.

Everyone sees him, but no one knows what he's made of. The more he bares himself to the world and the more I hear from him, the more I don't know about him. There are too many things I wish I knew–and I should've known–about him. He's been bottling up one trillion thoughts and spiralling down one trillion feelings in a part of his soul that people don't visit often.

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years, Andromeda is the largest galaxy in our Local Group, which is also home to the Triangulum Galaxy and other minor galaxies.

He is Andromeda. He is a vast galaxy of his own. He knows how to gravitate others towards him. He's the center of everything that beats, bends, breaks and falls apart for him.

The distance from Earth to Andromeda is 2.537 million light years.

I stare at the way his eyes light up under the stars—or is that the fire from his lit cigarette?—from the distance. I try to count the colors dancing in his eyes. Even when we are not standing side to side, I can tell that the colors are there to draw a constellation on his iris. He is the epitome of a young night (not) gone to waste.

Andromeda's spectrum is very similar to the spectra of individual stars, and from this, it was deduced that Andromeda has a stellar nature.

Without myself knowing, I've become a part of his galaxy. As a speck of dust within his universe, it is. I'm always afraid, but never of him. Should I?

Andromeda is expected to collide with Milky Way in roughly 4.5 billion years as they merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy or a large disc galaxy.

He can stop a loud silence with a snap of his fingers. He can bring a white darkness in a blink of an eye. I don't know whether I want to save him or I want to be saved. Because I know, our worlds are better off not colliding.

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kiatalitha guess who I came for? wait, no, don't answer. the Andromeda's staring back, anyway.

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was supposed to double-update but it's been tricky chapters, so let's take a breather and appreciate an art that is called Kang Younghyun on his 25th birthday.

he's not someone I particularly like or get myself into, but I respect him a lot.

I'm going to say this again; thank you.

I used to talk about this before. I gave up music and songwriting because my parents were against it, so I spent more time writing poems and fictions only for healing. I tried to get back writing lyrics, but it was really tiring to move from analyzing international politics to writing heartbreak songs back and forth.

but then, a whole Kang Younghyun happened.
a musician, a songwriter, a singer, and a college student.

knowing someone like Younghyun exists is like knowing that my teenage dream (of being a student and a songwriter at the same time) doesn't sound so farfetched, and that's more than enough for me. I'd like to thank Younghyun for living the dream I wish I lived in, and marking a happy ending of it. I'd like to thank Younghyun for making his dreams come true.

we don't know each other but thank you, Younghyun. thank you for being born, for dreaming, for believing, for working hard, for making great music, for graduating, for being a part of Day6, and for being who you are. I wish you nothing but to always be happy. I wish great things to come your way.

happy 25th birthday.

sincerely, C.