Dear SHINee,

Happy fourth anniversary. I may not have known you when you debuted, but I feel as though I’ve known you for forever. All your hard work up to this point has really impressed me, and I know that you will continue to achieve more and more every day.

A while ago, when I was really feeling down and confused, your beautiful music was what kept me going. Listening to In My Room especially touched something deep inside me.

It’s not just your music, though. Your beautiful personalities have warmed my heart as well. Watching you on broadcasts — especially Hello Baby — made me fall in love with you over and over again each episode. I got to know Taemin as a kind and polite young man and a wonderful dancer. I got to know Key as a diva with lots of attitude, but also as a person who has had to overcome dark times and bad feelings. I got to know Jonghyun as a witty, funny, sexy guy with an incredible, powerful voice and a Twitter account full of hilarious little gifts for his fans. I got to know Minho as a sweet, amusing, intense competitor who is also a wonderful dad. I got to know Onew as a generous, considerate, goofy, soft-spoken, beautiful person who will always put others before himself and whose creamy, smooth voice can melt my heart no matter what. You all work perfectly together, and I wouldn’t change a thing about your group.

Sherlock was the first comeback I got to experience myself, and it also pulled me out of a dark place and made me happy again. From the moment that first teaser — Minho’s — came out, I simply couldn’t contain my excitement. The energy from both you and your fans made me feel energized; like a new person. And getting to see you perform your first comeback stage on M!Net Countdown was just unreal (even though I was only watching it from my computer).

I know you will probably never read this, but if you do, I want you to know that you have touched my heart and so many other peoples’ hearts. From the moment you greeted me with the aptly-named Hello, I knew you had changed my life. So here’s to the four wonderful years you have spent singing and dancing your way into Shawols’ hearts, and to many more years to come.

-AEM

May 25, 2012

superchoiminho:

My boy childhood picture~

!!! Honestly thought this was Yoogeun at first

Snow in Seoul

Sometimes when lacy frost adorns my window

and icicles glisten from above;

When streets are too slick for cars and buses and people;

When I throw up my arms

and let the tiny crystalline flecks rest on my hair;

I wonder…

…is there snow in Seoul?

Thousands of miles away, as they drive along,

do they rub the frost off the car window

and gaze out to see children throwing up their arms just as I did?

Do they breathe out

and watch as their breath hangs in the air,

whispers of songs on their lips?

Do they wonder…

if anywhere else in the world…

there is snow?

I wish I could tell them all this;

wish I could let them know

of the spell they’ve cast on me.

I wish I could tell them I think of them

when it rains,

when it snows,

when there’s sun,

when there’s thunder…

I wish I could tell them how they’ve changed me.

But somehow, I have a feeling they already know.

-a Shawol

homosexualchangmin:

I just had to.

lololol

ren-idol:

chibimaru17:

hellosarang:

And proud of it.

young-lo:

I want to follow all of you~