december

How did my life go on?

BE era just started, and nothing really changed. I was still figuring myself out. But what if I did not need to?

I came up with an opportunity to explore an idealized world, where we can get away with anything - 2021 Cara Week, an initiative that used augmented reality to create a dream world that parallels the real world. As we know, reality hurts, especially at that very moment when we were still in the pandemic.

Working on Cara Week was never easy, but I went with it, knowing that by the time we enter Year 3 everything will go back to normal.

Cara, meanwhile, had been doing better every day - as always. But BTS may had been downsized at that point in their career. One of the members, Yoongi, had a surgery just moments before BE came out, which made him unable to promote with the boys for the time being and therefore the remaining members would have to go on to promote their new album as six. I'm used to them being seven, so that kind of hurts a lot.

But eventually, Cara was able to live on for another year - or at least, another month. Once he reached 2021, he became the second two-year leader, only next to Aliza in 2017. But reaching 2021 had been special, because after all.. it was the beginning of an era of coexistence.

As Cara Week concluded, I thought I was already getting the freedom that I need.