Happy New Year! For the folks here in South Korea! And Happy New Year's Eve for all you Westerners out there! It is, or will be, the start of the new year, 2012. Let all our superstitious thoughts rise...
But what does the new year mean to me? Well, I was caught starting it with some karaoke with my dad, and I thought "until that ball falls in Times Square it won't feel like an actual start" because I'm just like that. But what intrigued me was the feeling of something in the air, as we stepped out to the road. It was a clean, new scent, that seemed to spiritually cleanse everyone around us. As we got in our car, we saw jubilant groups of people of many different ages smile and laugh as if they had never done before, drunken with this fresh spirit floating around (and some older men (ahjushis) actually drunk).
This spirit seemed to bring a wind of hope, telling me that everything, worries, troubles, broken hearts, would come to mend in time. I hope this comes true. Very much. Its been a hard year.
Song: #1 - Jaurim
I recently found a very old music CD of a Korean band named Jaurim (자우림 in Korean). To this day they are still performing very well in the music industry. As it turns out, my mom and dad had both enjoyed Jaurim's music in the past, and had bought this CD. This CD was their fourth studio album, released in 2002 and simply titled "04." Likewise, the very first song in the album was a song titled #1. I felt this song, which sung in english (and a little hard to understand at certain parts), was very moving. Especially the lines "La La La, I'm a King without a Kingdom, La La La, I'm a mother without a womb for my children La La La, I'm a lover without a lover oh. I'm a foolish clown of the world." Give a second and try listening to it!
Again, Happy New Year everybody! ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃ May these twelve snowmen light your way throughout the new year!
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