보고 싶다

(Photo: Terrible image quality of a high quality act – what can I say? It was a dark room and it was hard to get a picture).

“Yeah, they used to write deep songs about growing apart as friends and navigating that rocky ground of reconnecting when your life, circumstances, and sometimes even you have changed.”

“And now their songs are ‘everything is fire, everything is lit’.”

“Exactly.”

This past weekend, a group of my friends and I watched the highly anticipated return of BTS as they performed a free hour-long concert in Seoul. We did not, in fact, go to Seoul because the prospect of dealing with 269,000 fans was just a bit much. But we did watch it live on Netflix. 

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The Importance of Character Development

“Everything changed, when Hollywood attacked….”

If you know me well, you know that I love Avatar: The Last Airbender. It is one of the few shows, regardless of whether it is animated or not, that I can watch again and again and get something new out of every time. It has layers and doesn’t shrink back from difficult themes, complex characterization, and meaningful life lessons. 

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