Yeah yeah 산들바람 다들 살아가겠지 사람들은 변하지 나도 변했듯이 음... why so serious? 뭐 어때 때론 또 아플지도 물이 흘러가는 대로
흘러가 뜻대로만 되지 않지 없으면 있고 싶기도 있으면 없고 싶기도 사람들은 변하지 너도 변했듯이 너의 평범함은 되려 나의 특별함 뭐 어때 때론 또 아플지도 An introspective look into existing, and how we move through life as a person.People by Agust D — via Spotify
The track People, at its core, is a cry from one lost soul to another, striving to be heard. Should it be a matter of concern or heart that no one will ever really figure out the formula of life, and that we can so be makers of our own destiny? Is it about surfing a tide of grandeur, or is it a breeze that sweeps by at opportune moments to make us stop. Wonder. Melancholy is a dart that never misses anyone in its target, and in the first verse, Yoongi does just that — wonder about his place in the world, and whether he can be boxed into what society considers good or bad. This notion of binary dualisms, where the weight of one concept derives meaning only in context of its opposite pair, is a trap that causes great grief to us when we limit our understanding to this or that. Constituents of lived experiences all comprise of a spectrum, and the novelty of being alive is that everything is relative. There will always be someone that thinks you aren’t good enough, someone who thinks that you are absolutely everything, but the beauty of being is that you have to do just that — be.
No matter who you are — someone big, someone small, someone powerful, or just enough — there is a core set of experiences that we all go through. Just the fact that we are human beings means that we have lived and loved, albeit at different capacities. In the constellation of our entity that we weave for ourselves, there also exist others, many of which overlap and interconnect, touch and go. In the end, however, death spares no one. We all come from the same earth that we then go back to, and no matter the legacies we write for ourselves, cannot stand the unforgiving test of time. The thought of this vastness is humbling but heartening, and Yoongi aims to convey just that. It circles back to the introspection of whether we must all spend our one life chasing something grand, or whether we are allowed to settle for small joys and stabilities. Ultimately, we all come to being and end our run in fundamentally the same manner, and so are equal.
I think of this section as a reassurance that nothing remains the same. As people, we are constantly growing and learning, being molded by our experiences. The person you are today is not the person you were 5 years ago, nor will be in the next 5. This very short span of 10 years puts into perspective how your trajectory cannot be thought of as a linear graph of milestones and happenings, but more as concentric circles that represent the foundations of who you are as a person and lie on one another to sit within the circle of life. via Google ImagesSadness, happiness, success, failure — it’s like a flimsy sandcastle waiting to crumble at the slightest disruption —the traces of which are never lost, but always able to be rebuilt into something new. It’s a concept that is reminiscent of the metaphor Yoongi has utilized in his verses as SUGA of BTS multiple times in the past:
— Savage Love [BTS Remix] (Jawsh 685, Jason Derulo, BTS) and
— Eight (IU ft. SUGA)
Living is loving, living is hurting and being able to brim with emotions is only proof that you are alive.
Water is often used as a symbol of resilience, something that keeps moving and always finds a way to emerge from even the narrowest of spaces. It is an element that is unpredictable, that heals and destroys, gives life and takes it away. Above all, it does not recognize rigidity and is able to unfailingly take the shape of whatever contains it but still maintain the essence of its composition.
Humans are fickle creatures, which is why the notion of the grass being greener elsewhere will never cease to exist. It all goes back once more to the concept of relativity because of how narrow-sighted we tend to be. People experience life in increments rather than wholly, and so our world begins and ends with the singular moments we live through. There are things we take for granted because it seems like they’re obligated to stick around, and so are only able to understand their value once they don’t. Foresight mitigates afterthought.
With a set of lyrics that directly challenges the ideology of humans being the self-proclaimed smartest creatures on Earth, Yoongi lays it bare for listeners to realize that our basal classification of animal still holds true because of how tightly regret is a stimulus that governs our decisions and makes us singular-minded. We are so comfortable in stagnancy and familiarity that we forget what living is truly about — not knowing the answers but having the strength to forge a path of our own making despite all. People’s message is simple in the way that its musings are so familiar to all that listen to it. The mortifying ordeal of being known, and the longing for it anyways. Yoongi via Instagram |
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