january

The second year of Caratime started with him taking leadership to new heights. Continuing with 2020 season 1-reNEW, which then left Comeback as the previous year's only season, he became a one year leader, transannual leader and multi-decade leader and he did all these without an alternate leader hence becoming the first to not even have one for a year - and all these were done by doing just one thing: reach his first anniversary. It's like hitting multiple stones with one throw, like bowling.

I can't believe he did that. But knowing that it isn't gonna be perfect later on.. it was only January but Taal volcano erupted, wildfires happened in Australia and Kobe Bryant died, and the first few cases of COVID-19 had already been recorded. Though during that time, social distancing measures were not yet in effect - but we'll get to that later.

In spite of these, as early as January his leadership took a 180° turn when Lumiere, an event I had been working on for a very long time, already had a schedule: February 21. On January 7, it was on that day when BTS official accounts announced the news of the year: they were to come back again with a new album called Map of the Soul: 7. I had been very busy since then, but at least everything that I had worked so hard on for this event will finally be put to use.